According to Nasreen Munni Kabir, a cinema scholar, this is a moment of great churning in Indian films. Films such as Kahaani and Vicky Donor prove that people are ready to accept different kinds of films which are observant about characters and life.These are presented in a humorous way.

According to Nasreen, popular cinema is repetitive —  the hero and heroine with 65 dancers behind them. It gets tedious, as it does not convey anything. It strives to entertain. After a while, one cannot tell  one scene from the other. There is space for this kind of cinema, but it should not be the only kind of cinema that is produced.

The 200-crore club, formerly pegged at 100-crore and likely to go up to 300-crore, indicates commercial success, but it does not indicate good cinema necessarily. The audience is willing to see other kinds of movies.

However, Indian cinema has developed a narrative which is so strong and so connected to the audience that it has survived Hollywood. There is no other cinema that has succeeded in surviving Hollywood, not even the French.