This statements sounds a bit classist to me. Availability or lack of money and/or education doesn't develop taste in movies (or music or books or any art for that matter).
Highly educated people with a nice 6 figure salary can also be terrible movie viewers. Movies are still timepass for Indian people. People will buy ticket of any movie on weekend and this results in stupid masala films with large footprint getting more money as it is playing in 3500+ screens at a time while a good movie is playing in theatres which are few and far between.
I have heard countless times that 'we went to watch xyz but ended up watching abc'.
I agree with you to some extent & respect your opinion.
& No i am not any kind of "....IST" (where discrimination is concerned).
I think there is a bit of misunderstanding. May be due to my improper usage of words.
I am not focusing only on the education part. Its the mentality of the people.
You see the manager of a certain section of our company says he has seen many hollywood, bollywood etc etc movies but don't know who is the director of the matrix!
Anyways lets get back to the topic. What I want to say is people like these often sees movie like murder 2 etc mostly through torrent or by other means which you can very well understand.
Lets grade them as category "A".
Category A contains people who are busy,lazy,thinks a lot before spending,goes to a theater only once or twice in 6 months.Thus they only want to enjoy movie @ home. eg: Office Working or business (who are most of the time busy) class mostly.
Category "B". These people consists of people who have enough time in hand. If they don't have anything to do a local theater is their favourite place. You can easily guess which type of people would fit in here. eg: students, labours, some women.
, Crazy fan for certain stars/ production houses etc & must watch their first show. ...etc etc.
Category B is the major source of their income. Also add some category A guys to it who sometimes out of curiosity goes to a theater to see if the film is really that much entertaining but comes out with a regret! eg: chennai express!
Btw If you do a little research you will find that these khan's have more fans in rural parts of india as compared to any big cities of india. Thus I made that statement.