a café near his home in Juhu, Mumbai. Here’s our conversation:
Sudesh Kumar (S K): I hope you’ll take my first question about filming in Africa in the right spirit because some people we know and love sort of balk at this subject matter, but you’re a an Asian man, and you tend to shoot in locales where, as an Asian person, and one with a camera, you distinctly don’t blend in. You’ve been doing this for decades now, so I’m assuming you’ve come up with ways to negotiate that. I know for sure, are incredibly open people and it wouldn’t appear as if it’s that difficult for people to trust and open themselves to you. But do you encounter suspicion or mistrust, wariness? And when you do, how do you counteract that?.
Rajeev Jain (R J): Right? Or we will be seen as urban people in rural places. There’s no question: I’m 5’10”; I am an Asian; I am someone, in these