Sita Sings The Blues – Brilliant Piece of Work by Nina Paley
I read about Nina Paley (A cartoonist ) in NY Times some time back and came to know that she is working on some animated movie based on Indian mythological history.
Her brilliant piece of work is now available online – Sita Sings The Blues and details about this animated movie can be found here
This movie is about her – and she has shown this movie through the medium of Ramayana (Epic Indian Mythological story about Lord Rama) – by seeing Ramayana from Sita’s (Lord Rama’s wife). Nina has resembled her life with Sita using amazing colorful animation and smooth songs. She has blended the commentary by three Indians and animation style for event visualization in a completely innovative way. She has put good amount of effort (approximately 5 years) to study Ramayana and come out with this beautiful piece of art. It’s a very brave attempt to correlating her life with Sita and she has used her imagination very subtely.
This movie is very englighting and amusing and throws a completely different perspective to Ramayana and it is very informative for people new to Indian culture or trying to know the Indian culture. (I would suggest to see other version of Ramayana which is equally entertaining and delightful.)
