Has the audience finally evolved?

The audience taste has evolved and finally the box office is rewarding good films and punishing bad ones. However, the exceptions are still there, like Bharat, Kabir Singh, and Total Dhamaal which earn big bucks despite being sub-par movies.

Also, the market for niche, sensible and Indie movies is not that strong. Masaan, Ugly, Black Friday, Manji, NH10 all under-performed at the box-office despite having great content and good reviews. Sonchiriya despite being a great movie barely lasted 1 week at the box-office.

Good movies are appreciated, but it does well on box office mostly if some well known star is in it,like Deepika's presence helped piku, though ultimately the story kept it going forward.Mission Mangal got huge response because people like Akshay. Badla had Amitabh Bachchan in a pivotal role.

Barfi used the presence of rk pc. In all these films the well known actors's names gave the initial push to the audience, then story,acting and WOM did the rest.

So what exactly is the audience looking for - a combination of entertainment and big stars?

Discuss.

No, audience still want entertainment, that is why War despite being a below par movie, is the highest grosser.

This "public wants good content is a fad", and is mostly propagated by the idiots in media and social media, who call themselves intellectuals, overrating mediocre or strictly good movies as masterpieces.

Originally posted by: mintyblue

The audience taste has evolved and finally the box office is rewarding good films and punishing bad ones. However, the exceptions are still there, like Bharat, Kabir Singh, and Total Dhamaal which earn big bucks despite being sub-par movies.

Also, the market for niche, sensible and Indie movies is not that strong. Masaan, Ugly, Black Friday, Manji, NH10 all under-performed at the box-office despite having great content and good reviews. Sonchiriya despite being a great movie barely lasted 1 week at the box-office.

Good movies are appreciated, but it does well on box office mostly if some well known star is in it,like Deepika's presence helped piku, though ultimately the story kept it going forward.Mission Mangal got huge response because people like Akshay. Badla had Amitabh Bachchan in a pivotal role.

Barfi used the presence of rk pc. In all these films the well known actors's names gave the initial push to the audience, then story,acting and WOM did the rest.

So what exactly is the audience looking for - a combination of entertainment and big stars?

Discuss.

Deepika's presence did nothing for Piku. It was the whole package which did it for Piku and frankly both Irrfan and Amitabh had more to do in the film and responsible for the film being so enjoyable. She was boring in it.

Originally posted by: Lulzbolly

Deepika's presence did nothing for Piku. It was the whole package which did it for Piku and frankly both Irrfan and Amitabh had more to do in the film and responsible for the film being so enjoyable. She was boring in it.

Thank God I am not the only one who thought Deepika wasn’t all that in Piku...She was better in Tamasha in fact but in Piku she was just being herself...And I am not even talking about her sub par diction and one note dialog delivery....:(

EDIT: And what’s this audience being evolved? People don’t watch movies for enlightenment or knowledge although I wont deny that they are some of the serendipities of watching a good movie....But the main reason a person watches a movie is to get entertained and have a great time away from his/her day to day existence- the movie which does it, wins! Simple as that!

Nah, the audience hasn't evolved at all.

When you see how big the Indian population is, you will realize what a tiny percent are even watching movies.

The Ayushman type films are seen mainly by a small select upper class audience. Anything seen by rich people automatically gets a huge amount of interest by the media because they are the ones that control the media in the first place.

It's the same media that will hype tiny Netflix movies like Yeh Ballet that hardly anyone watches.