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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.

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