Indeed if this week's other release "Hasee Toh Phasee" is at heart a father-daughter story, "Heartless" is a mother-son saga told with a tearful wave of the hand by a director who doesn't weigh down the narrative with excessive characters.
The plot restricts its manoeuvres to just a handful of effectively etched designer-characters, in clothes to match.
While Adhyayan's character remains on its feet, the film works effectively and cogently. Once he is horizontal on the operation table the narrative suffers a rush of woozy incredulity requiring herculean amounts of suspension of belief from the audience.
Tragically the sort of going-with-the-flow that the film demands from us is not justified by the thinned-out proceedings.
