I had seen this movies in the 80's when it was the so called art film highly appreciated for the performance of smita patil naseeruddin shah but watch it again in 2000 one will realise how much the young generation are much better than the directors of 80's who considered bollywood movies as trash and categorized their movie art movie an intelligent movie. But today when we see bollywood movies yes there are bad movies but almost majority of them are realistic movies with scope not only for hero but all actors of all ages and looks. This 80's director made movies with actors with average looks or no looks in one piece of cloth sad, unhappy, poverty stricken, humiliated by society or some upper caste etc and majority of those movies gave first preference to smita, shabana, naseer , om puri where in fact there were many other talented actors with talent and looks for such movies were available. So even after making self proclaimed intelligent movies they relied on saleable name to cast which was totally unfair. If you compare Arth with today's movies you will find it average movie. What smita did no doubt she was a very talented actors but today web series actors can give much better performance, if you look at naseer as a ruffian from slum and compare today's actor with same role which is very common in movies, serials, web series naseer performance is below average you can even say he over acted. Today Arth is just below average even compare to web series made on such subjects.
