2 (2015), pp. "Nina Paley on: Sita Sings the Blues: The Ramayana and 'Free Culture'" (9 March 2011) My grand total for the free film was $132,000, and that is a business model I am totally sticking to. Order yours today! Nina Paley is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. And everything that I do now is totally free. The Ramayana and Sita Sings the Blues 1339 Words | 4 Pages The Ramayana and Sita Sings The Blues Art is a form of expression that lives on for centuries but changes in interpretation over time. You must be an good artist and you are free to express but at least you should not twist the facts and scripture just to make your movie nice. A: Sita Sings the Blues is a musical, animated personal interpretation of the Indian epic the Ramayana. It maybe shouldn't all work. Why I can't "just swap out" the Annette Hanshaw songs in "Sita Sings the Blues": The songs themselves inspired the film. In Sita Sings the Blues, Paley has an alternate, customized picture of Sita. You know you’re in for a treat the minute you see the level of animation in Sita Sings the Blues. Sita Sings the Blues - Review. Told through four different animation styles, involving the filmmaker's story, the Sita story, three shadow figures giving humorous commentary on the Sita story, and my personal favorite, parts of the Sita story reflected through the music of a 1920's jazz musician. There are a few differences that I noticed between the Ramayana by Narayan, and the depiction of it in Sita Sings the Blues. i just seen your cartoon ‘Sita sings the blues’ and i was horrified to see that how you have misused your freedom of expression. Rating: Beg or borrow, but do watch. There would be no film without those songs. its kind. Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated adapation of The Ramayana, created by the American artist Nina Paley.In it, Paley experiments with what the medium of animation allows her to do both in representing the story of the epic and in incorporating elements from her own life experience. I was feebly connecting this ancient epic to … Until I heard them, the Ramayana was just another ancient Indian epic to me. Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License . Sita Sings the Blues is an animated film that retells the original story of Ramayana with a modern westernized twist on the ancient Indian myth. An organized (lawful and peaceful) protest caused the venue to cancel the showing, which later took place in a private home. Nina Paley took the Ramayana and created a story that would cater to her own life and situation in Sita Sings the Blues. It was an version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. She did it to honour her duties. In the retelling, ‘Sita sings the blues,’ Sita is the main character, focusing on her love for Rama and the heartbreak she goes through.