Do you appreciate 1920’s blues and tales of great love and its trials? Do yourself a favor and watch Sita Sings the Blues! It’s enchanting, original, and an absolute gem.
Sita Sings The Blues is an animated film based on the Ramayana, an epic Hindu poem that describes the love story between Rama, an ancient King, and Sita (see-tah), his beautiful wife. It’s billed as “the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.” It’s filled with the trials, tribulations, battles, evil monsters, and bravery necessary to epic tales. Laced with absolutely wonderful jazz vocals by Annette Hanshaw (I love her voice, and adore the music!), it’s a story within a story. We have the ancient tale along with a modern day story of lost love, and three shadow puppets narrators that are hilarious! Several animation styles are used in the film, and I liked them all.
This delightful film is by Nina Paley. She’s released the movie with the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License, so it’s free to watch, free to download. If you love it, they do accept donations that help to pay the expenses of making the film, and of making it so freely available.
If you like, you can read a glowing review of this film in Roger Ebert’s Journal.
You can watch the film online at Reel Thirteen. For additional links to watch or download the movie, go to the Sita Sites page.
I still smile when I think of this movie. 🙂 Enjoy!
I saw this little gem of a movie and it is so worth the time to watch it. It is pure enjoyment for the senses. I am so glad you mentioned it here where art abides.