"We all call ourselves liberal...but we can't even accept a love story across class," says Tillotama Shome who has delivered a powerful performance in Sir which recently debuted on Netflix and gave the 2018 film, a new lease of life. The subject at the centre is a controversial one, that of a love story between a maid and the man she works for. A dignified performance, Ratna (the maid played by Tillotama Shome) is a woman who was widowed very early and arrives in Mumbai for work and earn to send money back home. Through a warm, real love story, their relationship unfurls as one of mutual admiration but one where only the Sir (played by Vivek Gomber) expresses it first and Ratna at all points suggests it's a relationship that will be unacceptable to society. Through the various turns in the plot, the film questions the central issue, "can love cross class barriers" and break our societal conditioning.