Veteran actor Ratna Pathak Shah believes the Hindi film industry is no longer churning out “garbage” in the name of movies and says it is steadily marching on the path to bring global glory with its work.

The actor, a stage and screen stalwart, said the Indian film industry’s growth is running parallel to the apparent downfall of the cinema from the West. “[Earlier] we were genuinely laughable, today we are not. Today, we take ourselves seriously and hopefully the world will too. We are still struggling with many things, but we are on the path. We will come up with shows and films that will speak up, stand up for themselves not in the niche, but in the mainstream [space]. We also happened to be positioned well, because look at the garbage the West is putting out in terms of films,” the actor said in an interview.