I think to truly understand what equa is talking about - why Kamal's (what we call as) artistic films (as opposed to commercial films ) are actualyl commercial - you must see "true"art movies like the malayalam ones where the character a) brushes teeth for 5 minutes in the movie. And it has no relevance to anything in the movie. Simply 5 minutes of screentime capturing a "Realistic" pal theichal b) a solitary cow grazing for 10 minutes. Same shot. for 10 minutes.

Well, I am ofcourse trivializing but I have seen such "art" movies too - leaving them aside as faux art movies, even some acclaimed art movies have nothing for the "commercial" viewer (I mean myself) and in that context, while Kamal gives us high art, he gives it to us in capsules quite relatable to a normal commercial film watcher - if only such a viewer can make a slight leap of sensibility and mental ability.