And I want to talk a little about them and the thoughts I’ve been having. I encourage people to make up their own minds about it. 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 Annette Hanshaw and scenes from the artist's own life. Why I can't "just swap out" the Annette Hanshaw songs in "Sita Sings the Blues": The songs themselves inspired the film. Sita Sings the Blues Movie Summary – Sita Sing the Blues is a web-based animated feature and is only one of. (Sita Sings the Blues) The Ad Hoc Coalition, which is based in Canada, has taken an innovative approach to bringing about the issue of gender equality and crusading for political rights for women through animation. 13 : Iss.2 , Article 16. The night before last I watched two animated films from 2009 that were on Roger Ebert’s ‘Best of the Year’ list, Ponyo and Sita Sings the Blues, and last night I watched Coraline, Beauty and the Beast (I needed the nostalgic comfort) and Princess Mononoke. Sita says “‘My trials are not ended yet… I thought with your victory all our troubles were at an end! That is the point of Sita Sings the Blues: we all struggle with this story, which connects humans through time, space and culture, whether we're aware of it or not. . There would be no film without those songs. Sita Sings the Blues loosely follows the dominant Valmiki version of the epic. Her film is a personal interpretation of Valmiki’s Ramayana where she chooses to focus on Sita, and Rama’s rejection of her, and compare the ancient myth to a parallel narrative of her own failing marriage; Paley is rationalizing the myth to complement her own life and dilemmas. The best way to see Sita Sings the Blues is on a big screen, in a dark room, with other people! The Ramayana of Valmiki and Sita Sings the Blues The epic story of Rama and Sita, as portrayed by Valmiki’s Ramayana and the modern day film Sita sings the Blues are two different versions of the same story which contain several contrasts as well as similarities. I encourage people to make up their own minds about it. The cover of the Sita Sings the Blues Downloadable DVD. Title: Sita Sings the Blues Year: 2008 Comments: Nina Paley's film, Sita Sings the Blues, is a full-length animated version of the Ramayana, focusing on Sita, and you can watch it for free at YouTube, thanks to the generosity of Nina Paley, who has put the film into the public domain! Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 American animated musical romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley. Please distribute, copy, share, archive, and show Sita Sings the Blues. Until I heard them, the Ramayana was just another ancient Indian epic to me. Just as the Ramayana has mostly been written down and controlled by men, the songs in Sita Sings the Blues were mostly written by men; but sung by a woman - Hanshaw - they pack an emotional wallop and express a woman's voice. It may appear to be a “