crude or realistic: what is bhojpuri cinema?

often people slam cinema made in local languages as crude and technically immature, unless it is strongly patronised by cultural czars. More so if the maker has had training at one of the elite school of film making and then includes list of long shots with interspersed close ups and silent pauses ( did we hear art cinema?), the cinema is liable to be panned by critics and academics alike. One thing common in both of them is that they can not digest popular cinema. It is merely popular cinema meant to be discussed later in an academic paper to be presented at some conference at some western country, but in their public reading these films are reviewed badly. They are matters of amusement but not consumption. So films made in Bhojpuri, Garhwali, Nepali, Bundelkhandi etc. are subaltern culture with formula themes, garish colour and unreal fantasy. Bhojpuri cinema has long suffered from this kind of mindset. This is why despite having millions of cinema goers for Bhojpuri cinema in cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Amritsar or Ludhiana, Bhojouri films are never reviewed in popular dailies.
Bhojpuri cinema has often been derided as crude in story and also treatment, the camera work is jerky and acting loud. Even in Bihar and UP the elite and upper middle class never patronises Bhojpuri cinema. It is fashionable to watch a Bengali or Italian or Iranian films without subtitle, but never that respect is accorded to a Bhojpuri cinema. Now what most would call it crude, I would call it the main reason behind its stupendous success. The class profile of the Bhojpuri cinema goers is materially exposed to low income and low spending with very high saving and remittances. They are mostly who earn their daily bread after a long day of toil and hard labour. and many millions among them are living without their families and sexual partners. They miss all of them including their regional food. the 'crude' Bhojpuri films cater to them
The crudeness in treatment and production and post production reduces the cost of making these films and makes them affordable. The moment they have big stars, costly sets, foreign locales and hip post production( sadly all these are creeping in though) the films ticket will rise and go beyond affordability. Till now even a shoulder video camera and local artistes and cheap post production have ensured handsome returns. It is no one's argument that the quality of Bhojpuri films should remain poor, but definitely this makes them affordable.
techinally superior films are fantasy of elite. masses have always cherishes films that have simple story and have hardly gone in for slick, and technically well made films. Here I am talking of technical in the sense of hardware and software. They only make a film look slick and can be appreciated by a discerning critic like the colour scheme, smart post production and so on.
Bhojpuri films must develop its own economics and stick to them. Big stars and all that will blur the difference from mainstream Hindi films and lose audience. The economics of low budget, regional and local films must develop its own economic dogmas and must not fall prey to elitist, capitalist agenda of hardware and software sellers.