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Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 American animated musical romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley. It intersperses events from the Ramayana , light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets , musical interludes voiced with tracks by ...
Summaries. An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. The movie is about Sita, the Hindu Goddess from the epic "The Ramayana", who accompanies Lord Rama on a 14 year exile in forest. Sita is abducted by Ravana, the ruler of Lanka.
At first glance, a young white woman sitting in her apartment in San Francisco and an ancient Hindu text whose origins stretch back thousands of years couldn’t seem further apart. However, against all odds, Nina Paley brought the disparate situations of her own life and that of Sita in the .
Sita, the heroine, reminds me a little of the immortal Betty Boop, but her singing voice is sexier. Paley synchs her life story and singing and dancing with recordings of the American jazz singer Annette Hanshaw (1901-1985), a big star in the 1920s and 1930s who was known as “The Personality Girl.”
As a loyal and devoted wife, Sita accompanies Rama. But when she is kidnapped by the many-headed King Ravana (Sanjiv Jhaveri) from Sri Lanka, Rama must rescue her by fighting off a band of demons. He thinks she has been unfaithful to him and so she has to walk through flames to prove her purity.
Sita Sings the Blues: Directed by Nina Paley. With Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya. An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.
Sita Sings the Blues. A tour de force for filmmaker Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues gives the Ramayana its animated due with a visually vibrant, dazzlingly imaginative triumph. Charming...
“Sita Sings the Blues,” Nina Paley’s delightfully subversive feminist musical version of the “Ramayana,” spans continents and millennia in parallel stories of two wives being unfairly dumped,...
Synopsis. The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told. Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman’s contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.
Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.