Paresh Rawal who has played every kind of role and portrayed a variety of characters in his movies feels that Indian cinema is changing but today it lacks quality writers.

Here for a month-long shooting of Priyadarshan's film Bhool Bhuliya, Rawal says Indian cinema is growing. Gone are the days when working in a film meant at least two to three years. Now, actors have become disciplined and movies are being completed much faster.

Also, today, actors get everything ready in hand, from their lines to the script and screenplay, he says.

However, what it is lacking is the writers, he says.

Rawal says that everyone first plans to watch a film and from the moment one books the ticket one is engaged in thinking about the film. " Isliyey cinema woh hai jo aapko sochne par majboor kar de (real cinema is the one which makes you to think), he says.

On the scarcity of good movies these days, he said, the reason we all know. First we have no stories, second we want everything fast.

You see, when the literacy rate in India was less, we have good writers and lyricists. Now, when our literacy rate has gone up we don't have writers, he giggles.

Commenting on his characters like Babu Bhai in Hera Pheri, he says some people say that no other actor than me could have enacted this character better.

"I don't believe this. Every actor can do justice to any character given to him or her, but he or she would have his or her style in living the role," he says. Rawal says he does not watch television and sometimes gets furious at news presentations in various news channels."

I find it very funny. You are showing a crime story and adding background music in it. News presenters are behaving like actors. Their role is just to give us the news, but what they are doing looks funny and stupid at times," he says.

On the growth of television channels Rawal says "TV se mujhey koi umeed nahien hai.(I have no home from television)" Everyone wants to earn money through TRPS. When you are working in such a mass medium you have a social responsibility, but no one seems to care.

He is however, all praise for series like laughter challenge. People like Raju Srivastav and Sunil Paul are great.