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Sir

सर · 2018

A widowed live-in maid and the man she works for fall into something neither of their worlds will permit.

Director
Rohena Gera
Year
2018
Genre
Romance · Drama
Cast
Tillotama Shome, Vivek Gomber

Why it's in the canon

Cannes Critics' Week. It takes the class barrier seriously instead of dissolving it in a song.

A widowed live-in maid and the man she works for fall into something neither of their worlds will permit.

Sir sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.

The Bollywood 100

The essentials

Film record Wikipedia — Sir (2018) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one

Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result

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