master-servant relationship

His films subtly explore hierarchies and social obligations within families and workplaces, examining how individuals navigate power dynamics in confined domestic and professional spaces.

He systematically deconstructed class structures and master-servant relationships through surrealist narratives that expose the absurdity and cruelty embedded in social hierarchies.

His films interrogate colonial legacies and post-partition class struggles, portraying how servitude and dependence persist through trauma and displacement in modern India.