Suniel Shetty says he stopped doing films because ‘audience wasn’t willing to pay for trash’

Suniel Shetty has said that he made mistakes while picking films, adding that his audience is not willing to “pay for trash”. The actor said that when his kids get to see the love he receives from his fans, they wonder why he stopped doing movies. Suniel’s kids–daughter Athiya and son Ahan Shetty–are both actors in the Hindi film industry and have featured in a few movies.

He made his debut with Balwaan in 1992. Suniel never stopped working in films, though he has featured in non-Hindi movies of late. Over the past four years, he has worked in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. He had several guest appearances in Hindi films and his last Hindi film with a full-fledged role was Sidharth Malhotra-starrer A Gentleman in 2017.

Suniel told Bollywood Bubble, “It’s been a long time. I did one off Darbar and Kannada film and Pailwaan and one of those films but that was more to test waters, to understand and see do I remember the craft even now? Have I forgotten it? Do I have an audience? Of course everywhere I go there’s tremendous amount of love that I get. It’s unbelievable.”