Rajeev Khandelwal: 'I don't care about budget'

Rajeev Khandelwal has revealed that he thinks a movie's budget is less important to its success than its quality.

The actor will next be seen in the musical Soundtrack, co-starring Soha Ali Khan.

Khandelwal told DNA India: "I hope the success of Soundtrack will help me choose something exciting and challenging."

The former soap star has previously appeared in low-budget art house film Shaitan and psychological thriller Aamir.

"I am an actor who wants to do exciting things, want to be part of good cinema, irrespective of the budget. I do not think a good film is made by good budget... a good film is made by good intention," he said.

"If the film demands that kind of a budget then it should be assigned that kind of budget. But the budget of the film does not decide the quality of the film."

Khandelwal denied that his acting choices mean that he looks down on commercial cinema.

"There are so many actors and films of different kinds being made and you will need different actors to do justice to different kind of cinema and films," he said. "There is a room for everyone. I would do what excites me and where my instincts take me to."

Soundtrack centres on a drug addict DJ's rise to fame. It arrives in UK cinemas on September 30.

Director Ram Gopal Varma recently praised Aamir Khan for paving the way for other Bollywood stars with films such as Delhi Belly.

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