Mohnish Bahl says he is careful about selecting projects as he believes the audiences today demand better content and don't shy away from trashing a film or show they dislike.
The actor called the 1980s and 1990s a more "forgiving" era in cinema and TV.
"I believe post 2005, the profession is not as forgiving for the mistakes that you make. A bad film or bad performance will be rejected quickly by people," Bahl told PTI in an interview.
He said it is a conscious decision to do less work as he focuses more on quality than quantity.
"My last film was 'Jai Ho' and I haven't done television in six years. The reason is I don't get the work that I would like to do. I would like to do more projects like 'Sanjivani 2' or the films that I have done. I am little bit picky about the stuff that I want to do," he said.
"It will be easy for me to fill my daychart and make ten times the money I am making now. But how long will it last? Wouldn't the audience get jaded seeing my face all the time? I want to put the best work," the actor added.
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According to Bahl, Indian cinema has seen some radical yet positive changes in the last few decades.
"From the knowledge I have through the conversation with my mother (Nutan), I know that from the '50s to 2000s, there has always been a change in content.
"In the '50s and '60s, there were socially relevant films and then in the '80s, we went into an anti-establishment kind of a thing. It was more about the romance in the '90s and in the '2000s, we were back to social kind of subjects. We have a mixture of both the quintessential cinema and the content."