Sita Sings The Blues
October 20, 2009 by: Lys“The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”
Sita is a Hindu goddess and a dutiful wife separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana, accompanied by the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.
Narrators: Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya
Voice Actors: Reena Shah, Debargo Sanyal, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Aladdin Ullah
Nitya Vidyasagar, Pooja Kumar, Deepti Gupta
Sound Design & Audio Engineering: Greg Sextro
Scored by Todd Michaelsen, Nik Phelps
Musical Pieces by Rohan, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Masala Dosa,
Blues Songs from Annette Hanshaw
Written, Directed, Edited, Animated & Produced by Nina Paley
Duration: 82min, Language: English (various subtitles)
Related Links & Download:
http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/wiki/index.php?title=SitaSites
http://questioncopyright.org/whoHindu
