Yes Sir!

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, known as the Father of the Indian Constitution, in his undelivered speech 'Annihilation of Caste' in 1936, had mentioned the following:

"Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from commingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of mind. The destruction of caste does not therefore mean the destruction of a physical barrier. It means a notional change."

It is this notion of caste that unfortunately prevails in India (and the subcontinent) even today, and we are still very much caged inside it. 'Yes Sir!' is a story of how a notional change can still happen, albeit only slightly. The attempt is to show this in a lighter vein, as it is a story where the typical roles of an officer and a peon are reversed - a Brahmin serving as a peon to a Dalit, a senior officer at a government undertaking - and how this reversed hierarchy creates an awkward, and funny situation for the peon because of a mundane problem that needs to be fixed, almost like how the issue of caste needs to be fixed.

From a visual perspective, we have attempted to hint at this narrow-minded notion by filming the story in 4:3 frame which opens up to a wider frame only in the closing shot, and also not showing the peon and his officer in one frame (from his POV) until the point where his mindset starts to change a bit.