Big stars choosing wrong scripts bothers Arshad
Actor Arshad Warsi is disappointed at the lack of judgment big stars often display in the choice of their films, not making the most of their top billing.
“If you are the most successful actor, probably every good script that has been written will come to you first,” Arshad says. “You reject, it will go to the second guy, then to the third, and then it will get filtered further and all the riffraff will start coming to the lower half. In that space, you have to pick up the best. I am also in one of those. If I was right there, I would be choosing different movies.”
The actor feels that if he had that kind of power, he would put it to good use. “...It bothers me when I see big films that don’t do well. I am like ‘Dude, you had the opportunity to choose the best, why did you choose this?’ I don’t have that facility. It is like, if 20 films are made, after everybody has taken the best, five are left, which I have been given. Out of those five, I have to decide or say I don’t want to do it,” the actor elaborates.
Having accrued popularity for his performances in films such as the Munnabhai, Jolly LLB and Ishqiya franchises, , The actor says he never felt he was over and out in the phase even when work wasn’t exciting. “I am the only actor who has not worked for four years. I was completely out of sight and then I came back. There was a fear about being written off, but I thought, ‘Big deal, it is not the end of the world’. I knew I can do it.”