Ravi Dubey believes television and films can coexist peacefully and contrary to popular perception, small screen actors are not always looking at Bollywood as the next big thing.
The 34-year-old actor, who was recently seen in a film titled "3 Dev", says rather than looking for a break into movies, he prefers to improve his performance on the television.
"The canvas that television offers is great and films are may be best or equal to that. They are co-existing peacefully and no one is lesser than the other. It is a popular belief that you work tirelessly on television for years so that one day you can do films. This is incorrect," he told PTI.
"I think one should just keep evolving as a creative person and if films happen in your journey, so be it, and if they don't, then evolve as someone who is respectable."
Dubey says he is not doing television so that one day he gets into films but if "filmmakers think I am a good choice, they will approach me and if I like it, I will do it."
"I have done fiction shows for 11 years and I have associated with both long and short-term commitments. The edge-of-the-seat experience is something I like and that short-term commitment gives me that."