Current state says yes, but legacy has it's own barrier. Why not? For long there has been a monotonous narrative in cinema, which has gone through drastic change over the years, and we all know changes cannot be accepted very well, but here it has proven to be wrong. Let's take you back to 1990's, an era where Cinema had key 3 features: Love Story, Action and Dance Songs. Majority of them composed of these 3 elements, whichever movie had this, movie was a big success. This was the buissness funda for the producers to make their movie a great hit, and once 1 movie started to gain box office success, everyone joined the race. 'Set your shop according to customers in your area', this is what economics taught us, and this was the rule for succesful film. I do agree, there was less art, more buisness. Some just made movies so that they can have a lump sum amount in their pocket. But! Not all of them did that, some made movie which were out-of-box concept and became successful, and they are the one which garner most attention, which stood aloof from the rest and made a mark. Movies like Dil Se..(1998), Border(1997), Taal(1999), Rangeela(1995) are to name a few. These were different from both narrative as well as perspective point of view.

90's was also a time when artist from South Industry joined the Hindi Industry, and new magic happened, especially in music. This was the time when musicians like A.R. Rahman, Hariharan came into and music style changed. Also new filmakers like Mani Ratnam, Ram Gopal Varma, made their entry and the brought freshness to cinema. But number of such movies less, and some of them didn't gathered much of audience attention, but critics loved them. Let's move ahead, to early 2000's , this was a stage when dynamic came to Hindi Films, it started to gain International attention, and it influenced us, but such sudden change didn't came with much success, but monotonous narrative stood there. Then came the time after 2010's where the new wave started, and story telling saw a new change. Film makers were now going for a new concept and new theme, but they faced plagiarism, which means we took help from outsiders to write movies for us. So till now, our cinema didn't have uniquess, innovation and whoever brought them either audience didn't liked it or critics or both.

So if I have been writing this in 2011, my answer would be no. But this is 2019, and for past few years we had movies like Zom-Com, Thrillers, Alien Invasion and many more odd ones which we usually see in Hollywood, coming here and doing buisness of 100 crores and up, and critics ove them alike. Things changed, but something remained constant, isn't? What is it? Yes, Story. A good story is always appreciated, and that is what has remained constant. Even when I was bashing 90's, during that time too, movies with extraordinary story did very well, so no doubt good story has always been appreciated. That's why movies like Stree, Uri, Kahani, Andhadun have done so well at box office, even made at low budget, but grossed a lot.

So what changed? Realism came in, and element which was missing from the movies. Movies with character like ordinary person,like you and me, getting into variety of situation with making the canvas more broader and colourful to adjust the every spill of paint which filmaker can add ,and audience appreciate it with due respect. 'The people have spoken', and it goes very well with today's scenario. If you movie has a good story people will appreciate it, if not, it goes down! Realisitic cinema has gained power but not only that, commericial,Masala films do bumper collection and they work only if the story is convincing and entertaining enough.

So long story in short. Hindi Cinema is changing, and it's changing for good no doubt, we are bringing a silent revolution, this is the 'Realisitic Revolution' ,so hold on great things are coming ahead/

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