It bothers me when big stars go wrong in choosing scripts: Arshad Warsi

Actor Arshad Warsi says it bothers him when big films fail because top stars get all the good scripts so one expects them to choose better.

An actor's saleability and recent record at the box office helps him/her land all the top projects and scripts, he said.

"In the industry, you get offers depending on how successful your past films have been. The more saleable you are, the more opportunities you get, the better scripts (come your way). If you are the most successful actor, probably every good script that has been written will go to you first," Arshad told PTI.

"You reject, it will go the second guy, then to the third and then it will get filtered and all the riff-raff 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 very different movies," he added.

The actor said 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. Invariably, I say I don't want to do it."