A craft "can get rusty" if not practised enough - humble words coming from Amol Palekar. But the film veteran has his reasons for staying away from acting in movies for more than two decades, one being that "Hindi filmmakers are perhaps not missing" him.

"Why I am not seen in Hindi films? Ask the Hindi filmmakers. Probably they are not missing me, to be honest," Amolu00a0said in an interview during a visit to the capital.

"But that's fine, absolutely fine. If there is someone who comes up with a good role, something which will once again excite me, by all means I'll do it, irrespective of any language, as I did when I was acting," said the 64-year-old actor, who is making a comeback as an actor with Marathi movie "Samaantar".