Arshad Warsi: Good movies and nice company bring me to the sets

Arshad Warsi says as someone who is "lazy" and "t greedy", a film has to really inspire him to leave his house.

"re is limit to greed and what you want. I am a different person. I am t right model for an actor. An actor should be considerate and must be greedy for more and more. I am content and I don't care. I am lazy as hell.

"It has to mean a lot for me to get out of house and do a film. Good movies and nice company are only things that bring me out of my house and on sets," Arshad said in an interview.

Arshad has been part of successful franchise films like "Golmaal", "Dhamaal", "Munnabhai..". He will be seen next in "Pagalpanti" and he believes Anees Bazmee-directed film has scope of turning into a franchise.

" amount of offers I get (for franchise films) is a lot more. I hear script, I kw who is making it and you kw how it will be made. 'Pagalpanti' is my first film with Anees Bazmee and I kw how good he is with writing. He has got Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, John Abraham and it is a good team to work with. I have a feeling it will do well and this will get into a series. I believe people like to see characters. Characters make series, films don't. So you have to get people like characters for it to be made into a series."

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Citing an example of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer "Dilwale Dhulania Le Jayenge" and "Munnabhai.." series, Arshad said t every successful film can be turned into a franchise.

"Like you can't have a part two of 'Dilwale Dhulania Le Jayenge'. film was good but characters were rmal, two people in love, in 'Munnabhai MBBS' and 'Golmaal', it is possible as you like each and every character and you want to see m again."

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51-year-old actor revealed he has rejected quite a few franchise films like Indra Kumar's "Grant Masti" and "Great Grand Masti" because he wasn't comfortable doing sex-comedies.

"re are so many films that I have said to and I knew that it will do well. I did t do m because it did t appeal to me. I was offered 'Grand Masti', 'Great Grand Masti', I can't do this because I was t comfortable with sex comedies."

Though he is seen primarily in comedy films, Arshad said his characters have always been unique and entertaining and that is what has connected well with audience.

"I am t repetitive. reason I am t repetitive is because I play character what my writer writes. moment you follow what your writer has written for you n your character and acting changes. When you are honest to your character, n it stays with people," he said citing example of "Ishqiya" and "Munnabhai". 

"Jolly LLB" actor said he does t bor about size of his role if it is meaningful to story. 

"I don't care really, it really doesn't matter. Look at Amitabh Bachchan, he has mostly acted in two or three hero films, he would have had few solo releases all his life. You got to do good films with good people that is all matters. It is just your ego feeding you up."

Arshad's comic timing has been lauded t only by his co-stars and filmmakers but critics and audience as well.

"I have never got bad reviews. Even if film has t done well, I have always got this in review, 'He is done so well, wish he was t a part of film'."

actor is currently busy promoting his next multi-starrer comedy film "Pagalpanti", which will arrive in atres on vember 22. 

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