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Who Will Tell this Tale?

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The search for love, motivated me to tell Ranjana's story. She is in the photo below, with greenish sari. A few years back, I used to have a certain kind of anger against foreigners who came to Uganda (and by extension other ‘poor’ countries) to make films. “Who gives them the right to tell our stories?” me and other filmmakers/artists would ask ourselves in our silly workshops. “They are only going to misrepresent us.” “They only tell negative stories that stereotype us in pictures of poverty, sickness and war.” Then, I went to Nepal, the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, . It’s a story I’ve told over and over again and need not to repeat . When I told Nepal, the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, is about my intention, they asked; “You came all this way to tell that story?” Stories of inter-caste marriages are so commonplace. I could feel the bewilderment in the question...