The paper is an attempt to foreground the folk ethos in Habib Tanvir’s Agra Bazaar (1954) and Charandas Chor (1975). These works are always regarded as a masterpiece of Indian street theatre. The aim of this paper is also to explore the representation of paradoxes and contradictions of societies in the select works of Habib Tanvir. The paper is an attempt to critically analyse the select works and to correlate with various strands of society.