Sita Sings the Blues at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles!
Sita Sings the Blues at IFFLA
The mythological story of Rama and Sita is retold from a modern and refreshingly female perspective in Nina Paley’s animated film SITA SINGS THE BLUES. Three shadow puppets form a hilarious chorus as they relate the story of goddess Sita’s separation from Lord Rama focusing on the lesser known parts of the story, after her rescue, which challenge the whole notion of devotion and purity. Nina’s own romantic misadventures parallel Sita’s journey as she follows her husband across the world to India only to get dumped via email for her troubles. The whole thing is jazzed up, literally, by musical interludes set to the 1920’s vocals of Annette Hanshaw.
There are too many reasons to be excited about watching this film. Tickets are still available to catch this film on the big screen!
Saturday, April 25th, 2009, 5:00 PM
SITA SINGS THE BLUES
ArcLight Hollywood
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Ebert was in high praise of the film. Waiting to hear how it is received at IFFLA.
great film. the director of the film has put it out for free download. Check the official website for links:-
http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/
Yup, Ebert liked it so much that he is presenting it in the Ebertfest!
“The mythological story of Rama and Sita is retold from a modern and refreshingly female perspective in Nina Paley’s animated film SITA SINGS THE BLUES”
refreshingly female perspective? What the hell?
I can’t help but feel offended by the content of the film, the director should have had researched her stuff and acquired better understanding of the same..