Zee News bureau gave it 4 stars saying "'Mausam' can be best described as a wonderful blend of offbeat and mainstream cinema which is full of charm, elegance and vivacity."

Like most other comics of the early fifties, Haunted's content drew upon a wide variety of popular cultural sources, particularly mainstream cinema, pulp fiction and American folklore.

Though it's not mainstream cinema, Delhi In a Day has all the ingredients for an entertaining flick.

"It's hardly mainstream cinema," he said.

For cinema, this meant adopting a film style that would be legible to a broad audience, thus avoiding a possible split between the avant-garde and mainstream cinema that was evident in the late 1920s.

But mainstream cinema, which insists on heroes who are both square and hip, has a tough time exploring the paradox that virtue is a great charisma killer.

Working Title have to be given huge credit for developing, and promoting commercial and mainstream cinema in the UK.

In a gesture of protest against the National Film Awards committee's bias in awarding popular and mainstream cinema, he turned down the 2001 Special Jury Award for Best Actor.

TG4 has a broad film policy which features a strong range of both independent and mainstream cinema.