I’ve been waiting forever to see this. Thank you very much, WNET!

Thank You very much Thirteen for showing this in its entirety. I’ve been really looking forward to watching Ms. Paley’s animation.

Saw this movie at a local festival, and am SO happy to see it again! Thank you for posting! PLEASE NINA, RELEASE THE DVD!!!!

So what’s the difference between this version and the other one at this site, posted here:
http://www.thirteen.org/sites/reel13/indies/indie-sita-sings-the-blues/241/
?

Absolutely love the movie. Bravo.

hey Ms.paley,
you brought the real essence of indian mythology n asthetics thru your own intepretation..the movie came out best because of your understanding of mythology..n the characters which you have designed are absolutely mind blowing..especially lakshmi..she looks stunning with her Contemporary look..
i had never imagined goddess of earth will look this brilliant thru your art..
lottsa thanx to bring the real story of sita to the world..HATS OFF !!!!!
keep rokking !!!!!

This is amazing! I can honestly say I’d never imagined watching a whole movie in a little web browser window, but this movie had be hooked from the start. I can’t wait to watch it again on a larger screen.

Thank you for sharing.I just finished watching it and I will be watching it again.Totally awsome..I watched it full screen and the colors and animation was so beautiful,bravo..and thank you again

I’m speechless! It’s…well, everything as beautiful as Push Pin Graphics, and the Beatles, and well…all those cool kids’ books I read cause Mom couldn’t afford new ones (and are now worth a fortune…lost ‘em though)…But wow! And I’ve never read the Ramayana…Double happiness!

THIS IS BRILLIANT!!! I can’t wait for the April 4th CineFest Release here in Philadelphia, PA!

Thank you, THANK YOU Nina for sharing this film with the rest of us! It’s a beautiful, touching and superbly crafted work of art. And to top it all, it is hilarious! I loved every minute of it

This is going up on archive.org on March 7, in a high-res version, which you will be able to download for free.

This was AMAZING!!!! Countless props to Nina Paley for her five years of rigorous work and for sticking it to the man by sharing it in with everybody!

Yay!

this is a miracle of beauty… I watched it twice in one night. Amazing.

Fantastic !! i laughed ,i cried i learned i saved it in my favortes (of all time) very well done ..

Pure greatness.

I watched this film with my 9 year old daughter and it sparked conversations about mythologies, indian culture, jazz music. It was amazing to watch my daughter make wonderful observations throughout the film. Thank you Nina Paley for making this film.

SO SO GREAT! THANK YOU WNET! YOU ARE THE BEST!

Yeah it’s having issues, but keep trying. Servers must be stretched. It’s PBS, cut em some slack, they’re not exactly Google.

Um… These are not shadow puppets, which are shown only in silhoutette.

Spectacular! Really lovely work! Bravo!

I would like to be able to download the movie. How can I do that? It’s painful to rely on the streaming speed of this website. Thanks.

Thanks y’all!

For those who want downloads/DVDs: many more formats will be online by March 7th, the day Sita Sings the Blues airs on WNET TV (part of Reel 13 on March 7 at 10:45 pm). These will be higher resolution and free to copy and share. If you want a copy, please wait for the higher quality formats instead of capturing the very compressed (although good for its size - well done 13!) channel13.org streaming version. As the artist, I want the highest quality versions to circulate; it’d be sad if a super-compressed capture started torrenting first. Together, we can keep quality high!

In a month or two I hope to have signed “pre-downloaded” DVDs available for sale. Please check
http://blog.ninapaley.com/
for updates.

it’s playing ok now for me…

This is rocking my world, Big grats to Nina for working to get this out and her Exceptional skill as an artist.

I live in Canada. Thanks for not giving me the dreaded, “This video is not available in your country”, message. The internet should have no borders.

Excellent ! Bravo !

…
“The selected item is not currently available” @ http://www.thirteen.org/sites/reel13/blog/watch-sita-sings-the-blues-online/347/
or @ http://www.thirteen.org/includes/cove/player.php?pid=TZMfs6y3OiukeinkrN3c8b0KP3U6grjP&posterFrame=http://thirteen.vo.llnwd.net/o17/sitaposterframe.jpg&autoplay=false&width=512&height=306
…spoiled our sunday morning great artwork though :)!!! why not put this on youtube too (more reliable)? again great story-telling!!!
…

Beautifully designed. The animation is delightful. Loved it, thank you.

Awesome! I’ve been a fan of Nina Paley’s work for a while, it’s always fresh and thought provoking. Great music choice too. I suggest checking out her website where you can see some more of her work, it’s ninapaley.com.

Aw! The selected item is not currently available - pooh, I missed out in a big way. As a product of the New School, I’d love to see a professor’s work - plus I’m currently enamored with Bollywood and working on an adaptation of my own. Double pout! Hope this will return, or at least air on my channel 13!

It’s not playing, and I’ve reloaded it at least a hundred times. Can someone help me please?

I don’t know why it’s working for some but not others. I was halfway through at 6:00 pm EST and it became unavailable. Still won’t work! I loved what I saw - wonderful animation and creativity - but now I’m dying to finish it.

An elegant and astonishing movie, I saw it in New York and look forward to seeing it again - thank you, Nina, for your generosity in making it available this way.

loved this movie! thank you

Nina, thanks for making this movie - something that’s been waiting to be made since “sometime” B.C. Simply stated - more power to you, and to other voices just like yours! And yes, great art as well! Congratulations.

it’s not playing for me either at the moment - let’s just hope it’s only because they turn their servers off on sunday nights, not something worse…

I believe that the issue with the “not available” error is that the servers which host the video are being heavily slammed to feed the film. I know I’ve seen issues where the film will stutter but keep playing.

That having been said, I have watched this film and can see why critics have been raving about this film. Not only is it a massive undertaking by a single individual, it embodies all that is wonderful about film making in a single movie. It’s also a rebuttal to those who think that animation is meant only for children and that you can’t tell a true narrative via animation. The story of Sita (along with the parallel story of Nina Paley’s breakup) is displayed fully, matched by the music of Annette Hanshaw. It’s a film that can be watched by anyone, and the themes cleanly laid out to understand.

Ms. Paley, creativity will eventually win out.

What a talented delivery of such a sad
tragedy. Rama is so stupid for putting
what others think of him above the innocent
Sita.

My favorite parts are when the 3 commentators
would give their knowledge and opinions on
the various events in the Ramayana.

Nina, this is so spectacular! I love everything about your movie & I look forward to meeting you in person at an ASIFA SF event!

All versions I find say they’re not available. *sad*

The 480P version as posted on archive.org is now available as a torrent - http://www.mininova.org/get/2339365

looking forward to being with you and your program. First venture

wow. simply wow.

Absolutely brilliant! The quality of the graphics is surpassed only by the musical blend. Is there more created by this wonderful group of talents?

Thank you technogeeks through the ages, thank you, Nina. Thank you and blessings, Channel 13. Brilliant.

is a DVD available anywhere? is is potentially an amazing gift!!
Regards

I am also getting the “Selected Item is Not Currently Available” message. Also the new high-res version for download is not visible for me. Could I be having problems because I’m using a Mac or Firefox?

I am having trouble seeing. Is says it is not available. I am using Mozilla.
Could you help me please?

Carmen

where is Lakshmana in this story?
Rama was accompanied by his brother through out the story.

Been trying to watch it for days now but can’t.It doesnt stream properly. *sigh*

wonderful! enjoyed every minute and am about to go to nina paley’s website and make a donation. the streaming worked perfectly for me on a slow-ish internet connection.

Watched this beautiful & funny film last night at the Fargo Film Festival! I’m so excited that it’s online. I plan on blogging about it and sending it to all my friends to see! Thanks for this wonderful work.

As an aspiring illustrator and animator this was very inspirational.

So. utterly. thrilling! Nina Paley thank you so much. Its so amazing to see how a myth can be sooo relevant for us today. Still, the Ramayana is being told…but that voice which was for so long silent is singing loud n clear in a tone and language we all understand. Very inspiring work. I love it, and i love Sita

Nina Paley, congratulations to you for making this wonderful and brilliant animation work. How come Technopark Trivandrum is mentioned! My only remark is that you may have hastened the final part which was quite delicate and intriguing to many which is the rift between Rama’s longing for Seetha and his sense of duties. Late G Aravindan made a fabulous movie in 1977 on this theme (Kanchana Seeetha) based on Sreekantan Nair’s play. Thanks again and we look forward to seeing more of your work.

At the least i would call it interesting. Personally I was very impressed. It is one of a kind, a unique representation (not interpretation) of Ramayana. Its unique in its graphics and juxtaposition of Annette Hanshaw’s blues into Ramayana. It has its funny moments, especially the 3 Indian sounding voices, who in the movie, try to provide there interpretation of the events.

Not to say that there are no flaws. It is not accurate to Valmiki’s Ramayana and Nina Paley has taken lenience in here interpretation of the epic. The reason i bring this up is because the movie in its initial credits highlights on the point that it is based on Valmiki’s Ramayana.

We loved it. Nina Paley should do more like this.

This is art. And this “interpretation” is promising about the mythos.
Beautiful.

This is the best “indie” yet, imho. Expands my world, in a playful way. I’ve given money to support this. Hate those Doo Wop marathons.

Flipping channels and found this on 13 tonight. Beautiful animation, music, and adaptation! Funny thing is my name is Nina and my boyfriend’s name is Dave. Look forward to seeing more by you Nina Paley!

Brilliant! Thank you WNET. Thank you Nina Paley.

This is beautiful. Thank you Nina Paley and Reel 13! Nina, I’m looking forward to seeing some of your other work.

Kudos. I haven’t felt so inspired in a long, long time.

This is one of those works of art that changes one’s life. Like, you’ll always remember where you were when you saw it.

I have now watched the film once (on Channel 13 earlier), listened to it again (streaming from thirteen.org) while working; and I’ve downloaded high-res versions from archive.org; and I’ve watched Paley’s interview on questioncopyright.org once and listened to it two or three more times while cleaning up the apartment. I’ve emailed everyone I know about it. And now I’m going to bed.

Nina!Saw this movie at festivalanimations //Krok//
in Kiev .Amazing!Diakuy!Thank you!

Amazing creativity and integrity!

Fantastic! It reminds me of “The Fountain.” Like three simultaneous love stories occurring in different ways based on mythology…

Wonderful movie! Thank you for hosting, it was a delight to see.

Hi dear Nina: thanks for the magic of this film. I enyoyed it a lot. On the other hand I felt completely the pain of the women characters and the many rivers of tears women unfairly have shed.
Great Mr. Peña and Channel 13

absolutely marvellous, I want to send it to everyone I know.

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!! THIS IS GREAT - the drawing the music - and very brave to make it so personal - Nina screw that idiot! He’s not worth anything! —– Thank you to PBS and for putting it online
Nina ~ how about giving us the Mahabarata?!!!???!!!
Super! thanx

My husband and I became enthralled with the Ramayana through Ashok Banker’s inspired 21st century retelling. Nina’s parallel between her life and Sita’s, in brilliant animation and torch songs, is just as entertaining–and immensely enlightening for those of us who are new to Indian culture. Thank you!!!

This is one of the best films I’ve ever seen, animated or not - no kidding. Great work.

incredible. thank you.

it’s real good… really well done .. thanks a ton .. you’ll people are cool

Thank you so much for this amazing film! It was incredible and you are amazingly talented!

Watching the great epic Ramayana and then googling it up I somehow got into your site. I myself was highly impressed when I saw the episode when Ram tells Sita, ” Kings have been known to have many wives, but I have made a decision not to bring anyone else into my life, I make a promise to have only one wife-That is you Sita” Sita than touches Ram’s feet to which Ram says , ” Do not touch my feet, your place is in my heart, I will treat you as my friend not as a dasi ( Dasi was the term used to describe that women had to serve her husband). ”
Many episodes later,after the forest exile, the kidnapping etc, Ram orders Lakshman to send Sita to the Ashram, he does so not because he mis-trusts Sita, but because he has to follow his Duty of a King- to do what is right for his people. It may sound absurd to us in today’s time but thousand’s of year’s ago Duty was the most important. That is why Ram himself left his luxorious life in the Palace and went to live in the forest. For Duty he did not even care for his own well being. Than how can we conclude that sending Sita to ashram was wrong by Ram’s part? The people of his kingdom did not trust the queen, and Ram felt it was his duty to care about his people. Yes it sounds hideous, but that was a different Era. We have to judge them according to their mindset’s not ours.
Why is it that I see Ram as a person with positive values, who followed what he was told since he was a kid- To act in the interest of his people. When Kings enjoyed in the glory of having multiple queens, Ram chose to have only one.
He could have easily married someone else after sending Sita to the ashram. But he did not. Don’t you think he too was suffering?
He could have chosen to leave Sita with Ravan and get married to someone else, But he choose to go and save her.
All his actions make me beleive that he was a Man with values. Why do u see otherwise?

It is easy to compare Ram to your husband-who did something cruel to you. But for GOD’s sake do not mis-interpret what Ram is. Please don’t change Ram’s image.

Regards,
Jessica.

Very wonderful, worthy of an Oscar, in my humble opinion. Thank you for making and sharing such a wonderful movie!

I read what Jessica and Srikanth had to say. But I have just 1 question…. why was Sita asked to go through the fire test when ihe results really didn’t affect her fate? She did spend her life in the ashram inspite of proving her purity while Ram continued to live a king’s life.
Also, as Jessica said, the kings had numerous wives in that era. But I would like to point out that they protected each one of them till they lived. None of the wives was deserted to face the fury of the people. Also, marrying princess’ was a way of ensuring peace and unity among kingdoms rather than any other purpose. So Ram really did not exhibit a godly act by protecting his wife, even in that era.
And when we talk about duties, why did Ram have no duties towards his sons.

thank you jessica for bringing this up so poignantly. And yes miss nina, please do the same with jesus and lets see what your pope says. Or do the same with allah and then lets see what osama bombs next. I am stunned at the liberties you have taken with a culture that is so ancient and respected. maybe you should have at least bothered to read the ramayana before making this attempt?

@Reema: She did read the Ramayana, and was inspired by it to create this work of 5 years. There is nothing disrespectful about offering a different perspective on the story - a tale’s meaning should not be completely bound by the literal text. For example, you draw parallels with other religions - what do you think would happen if every Christian followed the Bible literally? Should we allow slavery, or bar the disfigured from churches? (Answer is no.) Ms. Paley has done a great job of bringing the Ramayana to the medium of animation, as well as connecting it to modern themes and culture.

Abso-freakin-lutely Fabulous!!! This vidoe has managed to achieve a lot for me… Not only has it revealed many mythological tidbits for me but it looks like I may also start listening to jazz music after all! Kudos to you, Nina! You’re a strong woman and your ex-husband’s an absolute prick to have lost a lovely wife like you! I’d love to see more of your work! Great script and execution! Bravo!

Nice blog culture, I just notice my one comment as well as one of my friend comments was discarded, which is critisizeing Ms. Nina.

And Ms. Nina critisizeing Ramayana and hurting, and people are encouraging it.

This called, one way traffic, and so called open culture, which only take one side in reality.

I love the Ramayan, and this is not the movie for Ramayan-lovers. What disappointed me was the irreverence to the Ramayan characters, when contrasted with more respectful treatment of the characters in Nina’s personal story.

We loved Lexi the cat! He reminded us of our sunny cat, and Shiva cat……both males. both Rama
s in their own right. I loved the justopostition of the modern American couple, with Rama and Sita, and the shades of science theatre silhouettes,or shadow puppets, and their side comments. I have seen it twice, and am still learning from it……loved the graphics, music, and animation.

Phenomenal. Thanks for this and hope to see it on DVD soon!

Wow!~ The animation, integration of the story, everything was amazing!

Hi Nina! What a great, entertaining film. I especially loved the narration by the “shadow puppets.” And to think, I remember you when you were creating drawings for the Platypus and for PLATO Music Group performance flyers!

That’s all!

i am immeresed in your story telling..wonderful work, i am not able to move away ,great design.amazing!

i absolutely LOVED this!!! so beautiful!

Please STOP showing this ridiculous video. Do not hurt if you cannot heal.

Well first: the musical portions were beautifully rendered. The rest is crap. I firmly believe in religious debate, scholarly works, discussion, interpretations. What I do not believe in is mocking another person’s religion, especially by a person from another culture/religion. Ms. Naley’s story comes off as racist and ethnocentric. Trying to cover up her racism by having a couple of liberal Hindus “discussing” the Ramayana does not amount to rigorous academic interpretation. I am offended and I am not even Hindu. I am unsure what she was trying to accomplish here but after thinking about it I understood: Ms. Naley got dumped by her husband in India. She can’t get revenge on him because she obviously still loves him but she can get revenge on the place that “broke” her marriage, India. Hence the creation of Sita Sings the Blues.

Nina - What a beautifully done movie. You have done what great artists have done through the ages: You’ve taken mythos, legends and your own experiences and woven them together into your own interpretation and vision, which you then presented brilliantly.

For those inclined to take offense or say that Nina is showing disrespect, I must stronly disagree. Nina is a powerfully talented and gifted artist who has created a lovely and moving work. Would you shame a rainbow? Would you kill a bird because its beauty offends you? What gives you that right? Nina has created a piece of art based on her perspective, ideas and experiences. She has taken a mythos, personalized it, and put life and humanity into it. This is truly the mark of the accomplished artist.

To those who have chosen to take offense: If you wish to protest what she has created because you consider these legends sacred, then I humbly suggest you develop the skills and do the hard work necessary to create your own art and put all the reverence and worship into it you like. I would not be at all surprised to find that said works produced will most likely end up being stiff, two-dimensional and boring. Pious reverence is easy. Making myths and legends human enough to care about is very very hard.

I come to the Ramayana through Southeast Asia, esp.Javanese, Balinese, and Malay shadow theatre. (BTW, I think those puppets in SSTB are Malay!) I note with interest that Nina lists “Many Ramayanas” among her sources, and this is evidence that she has taken the variation in the Rama story into account. There are Rama stories in which Sita marries Ravana, and so many other versions — SSTB is very much part of that tradition. There is humor, reverence, personal narrative, and really good art going on here. Have to admit I miss Lakshmana (esp. when he cuts off Surpanaka’s nose! Fun for all!), but otherwise have few gripes.

Nina
i really enjoyed your adaptation of Sita’s self imposed distress (from the moment she married Rama to her being swallowed by mother earth) to all women across cultures and countries- i think we are all pansies like sita in many ways– though we know we should not be- at least I should be honest and so were u- I likes that

The three shadow- “indian puppets” u had relating the story were pretty irritating- It was very obvious that they were faking their ignorance of the story line just to be “pseudo” funny- hopefully people who did not see thru the fakeness enjoyed the background talk score-

apparently u have a better grasp of the ramayana than they did;-)

everything else about the film and its adaptation to depict the very real/vulnerable side of the ever emotional woman was great

The movie is now available for download as a burnable DVD image - check the movie’s website and look on the wiki for a link. It fits on one blank DVD and contains 8 subtitle languages, the director commentary, full menus with chapters, plus some extra goodies.

Thank you very much

Part of Reel 13’s ongoing mission is to present fascinating independent films you won’t easily find elsewhere. We already launched this initiative with the online debut of Nina Paley’s tremendous achievement, Sita Sings the Blues. Now, the same week that the glossy special effects extravaganza Terminator: Salvation bombards the box office, we bring you a robot flick of another kind…

http://www.thirteen.org/sites/reel13/indies/indies-watch-automatons-online/714/

I love love love LOVE this movie! Thanks so much for publishing it!

Fantastic - thank you for sending this , Nina xx

also available at

http://rameshram.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/sita-sings-the-blues-full-movie-nina-paley-2008-i-think/

http://www.neveryawn.com
Nina posted short videos to her sites 18 months ago, I started to watch this movie. I and my boyfriend were floored by those amazing details.
I and my boyfriend are watching it together again. Life is a lot of fun that way.

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Oh, I love this movie so much! I watch this as often as I can. The song “Moanin’ Low” is my favorite. I especially love how the two act while they’re both kind of waiting for Rama to kick Sita out. It’s sad, but I really don’t hate or blame Rama for the second time. It wasn’t that he didn’t love Sita, just that his people had to come first if he were to be king.

Kudos to Ms. Paley!
I so enjoyed viewing the film, and thank you for so generously posting it here. The cut-to sequences with the shadow puppets were a stitch, and all of the music (but especially the Annette tunes) blended with the remarkable tapestry of animation.
So well done! I could watch it over & over, and I have been passing the word along to anyone who will listen.

Great Art and Puppet voices. But please NOTE:
Rama, brother Lakhsmana and Sita together went to the forests!
Sita wore only a married woman’s token-jewelery on her body. She was not voluptuous as described and vulgarized by Supnakha as shown.
Rama himself had no doubts about Sita, but had to follow the rules of society which all rulers must do unless the subjects are against them.

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Beautiful Movie in All your part!!! Thx so much for the opportunity to watch it!!!

Awesome masterpiece.Thank you and Nina. By chance I came across the movie on Reel 13. Couldn’t leave.

This movie was good if you are a retard

Movie critic is 100% right about this complete failure of a movie all i can say is that this movie is F.U.B.A.R.

F this movie it was too much of a trip for this guy

I 8– this movie

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This is a wonderful retelling of the Ramayana.
It’s full of love and respect for the text.
There is a great tradition of retelling the Sanskrit epic stories in Indian literature. Does not Kalidasa retell the Mahabharata story of Shakuntala in a completely different way? There’s also a play by the Sanskrit poet Bhavabhuti called ‘Rama’s Last Act’ which closely examines his rejection of Sita:http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org/volume-v-66.html
There is a series of 9 negative comments above (4th Nov 2009) which are obviously from the same person or group. This sort of Hindutva chauvinist nonsense is based on ignorance of the liberal traditions of Sanskrit literature, where the old stories are told and retold according to the mores of the age, and the artistry of each interpretation is celebrated according to its merits.
Some interpretations are stylistically radical but narratively conservative, such as the Bhattikavya of Bhatti (http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org/volume-v-78.html), and some are the opposite such as Vedantadesika’s Hamsasamdesha (http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org/volume-v-21.html).
Sita Sings the Blues is a beautiful rendition and interpretation.

Who ever made and give voice to this video will go to hell, In-sha-allah your live will be become hell soon and you will ask for mercy and who ever is posting this video on any sharing site will suffer very soon, soon Bajrangbali will kick your ass and you will see hell here on earth.

You can’t make joke about our Indian

I deplore the works of Ms.Nina Paley, the cartoonist, because it hurts my sentiments. Her works are anti-Hindu religion, Hindu-Gods/goddessses.

The US Laws / Indian laws prohibits one to make derogatory / denigrating works against another religion.

The US Govt. should ban her works and stop her to do so.

This is not acceptable. Hindus being tolerant doesn’t mean others have every right to disrespect Hindu believes and religion. What if we also start protesting the way Muslims are doing world wide. Do you need us to start dis respecting Christ and Christianity. We humbly urged to U.S. Govt to ban this movie and ask this Nina lady to apologize us immediately. Please do not test our tolerance level. Thngs can change overnight. Thanks.

Kindly, viewers dont go by fun, it is really painful to see hindu god and godesses being defamed, i hope you all will understand, ban this video please.

Nina,

Show me a Ramayana written by many authors including women where Sita is comaplaining or lameting? ‘DHARMA’ is what you need to understand from Ramayana. That is the essence. If you do not understand that and see it as a bedtime story for children or as a distraught woman abondened by her husband, your sight is blinded.
It was Sita’s decision to follow her husband on exile. Rama was king and he had to perform his Dharma. Modern Americans themselves cannot accept their President or Governers commiting adultry and Rama was an emperor so how can he let people talk ill about his wife, family and dynasty. Remember, Rama became great because he stuck to DHARMA.
Regarding artistic liberty comes with a RESPONSIBILITY towards society. Artists are not islands and even if they do create any such ‘work of art’ it should be confined to their laptops or the confines of their studios and not release it to public and expect no adverse reaction. When you know it is controversial and offending to people, why make it at all? Gain popularity at the cost of hurting sentiments?

This film is absolutely crap! Not only are the attempts at comedy in the production cheesy and ridiculous. The Ramayana is portrayed as some meaningless little story that effects no one. But the Ramayana is a vast part of India’s culture and a fine Epic that was just made a mockery of. This film was excrutiating to watch. As a fellow person in the media Paley ought to be ashamed; not only the story but the production values were awful. Not to mention the ridiculous “blues” songs were monotonous and were all exactly alike. Oh my goodness!

Its amazing that you manage to do all the art by yourself! Fabulous!!!

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Is Ramayana story only for Hindus? Is Bible only for Christians ? Why are we acting like fanatic Muslims ? In absolute freedom any one has right to say/express whatever. If some one gets offended that is his/her problem. If some one mocks at you he does not know what he/she is doing. There is no way one can control another. One can control oneself through God. Please enjoy this movie in free spirit and do not get religious like fundamentals.

Bravo Nina! Wonderful animation and musical text. I applaud your expression. Nina clearly identified with Sita’s abandonment in her own relationship issue. And what an interesting perspective we see from Sita’s view. I very much enjoyed hearing the Ramayana retold from a woman. Sita was surely an inspiration to Nina as she is to many for different reasons. The animation is creative, original and imaginative. Nice job! Thank you

[...] So we finally watched Sita, and it was brilliant and unique (the plot is semi-autobiographical, juxtaposing Nina Paley’s divorce with the romantic saga of Sita and Rama from the Ramayana), and all those nice things Ebert had said. And we weren’t the only two people to feel that way — it went on to become a darling of the festival circuit and win the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award at last year’s Gotham Awards. And now, lucky for you, Sita Sings the Blues is streaming for free online. [...]

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[...] The film with this image as one of its centerpieces is currently available to watch for free at Reel 13. [...]

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