Sita sings the Blues

There's nothing here but a shout-out to a terrific animated called 'Sita Sings the Blues'

The movie was made by a talented young woman called Nina Paley, and it's story (in some part) reflects her own journey through love.

Excerpted from the interview:

Wired: What is your movie about?

Nina Paley: Sita Sings the Blues is a musical, animated personal interpretation of the Indian epic the Ramayana. The aspect of the story that I focus on is the relationship between Sita and Rama, who are gods incarnated as human beings, and even they can't make their marriage work [laughs].

Wired: And that ties in with the film's second narrative.

Paley: Right, and then there's my story. I'm just an ordinary human, who also can't make her marriage work. And the way that it fails is uncannily similar to the way Rama and Sita's [relationship fails]. Inexplicable yet so familiar. And the question that I asked and the question people still ask is, "Why"? Why did Rama reject Sita? Why did my husband reject me? We don't know why, and we didn't know 3,000 years ago. I like that there's really no way to answer the question, that you have to accept that this is something that happens to a lot of humans.



You can stream the movie online at reel 13 or on YouTube in HD, but don't forget to check out her site www.sitasingstheblues.com.

Here's the trailer:


It's screening all over the world this year, it may be screening close to you.

Some heartbreaks are universal, it seems.