this post happened because i have lots of time to stare at movie posters

this post touched a nerve, mostly because i was thinking a very similar thought this morning, so this had the sound of a reply. i'm finding it difficult to find precise words for what i'm trying to say, but what it works out to is that looking around, i think that hindi films are no longer made for a common audience. there are the movies that could not hope to succeed in the heartland, and there are the others, that are made to be crowd-pleasers. what i take this to mean is that there's a loss of cultural common ground, and that's rather sad. what it means is that there are no longer lines like "arre o samba" and the like, that would be instantly recognisable to most indians who speak hindi, regardless of where he/she's from or how urbanised he/she is. that just can't be, any more. and i wondered if that's the reason why there aren't any "great" hindi movies any more (i can't think of few that would be watched twenty years from now).

there are of course the usual arguments about liberalisation and the split-down-the-middle that the intelligentsia claims to haunt india (i could segue off to naxalism from here, but i won't) but in human terms, i wonder if this absence of common cinema would mean that we understand each other less well than we used to: becasue our idiom, our cultural references, are now so different.
and extrapolating, does this mean that other languages, where the differences between the arty and the crowd-pleaser aren't so huge, are the people also bound to be more alike? are they likely to produce better cinema?