Dangal fame director Nitesh Tiwari, who has worked with A-list actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan, says the trend of deciding a film's budget on the basis of the star rather than a script is an "unfortunate" scenario. "It is an unfortunate scenario in our country that the film's budget is decided not on the basis of the script but on the basis of who is starring in it," Tiwari said during a panel discussion on the position of children's films in India and the way forward at the ongoing 48th International Film Festival of India in Goa.

Nitesh Tiwari