Sita Sings the Blues

Feb 11, 2008

1h 22m

★ 7.0

The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.

Overview

Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.

Genres

Animation

Drama

Music

Romance

Fantasy

Production Companies

Nina Paley

Sita Sings the Blues Trailers

Cast

Sita

Reena Shah

Rama

Debargo Sanyal

Sita (singing)

Annette Hanshaw

Narrator

Aseem Chhabra

Narrator

Bhavana Nagulapally

Narrator

Manish Acharya

Dave / Dasharatha / Ravana / Dhobi / Valmiki

Sanjiv Jhaveri

Surphanaka

Pooja Kumar

Mareecha/ Hunuman

Aladdin Ullah

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis Tsopanellis) wants to marry her eldest daughter (Anny Loulou) and take advantage of the family's meager earnings. He kidnaps the not-unwilling girl, and argues with her mother about the dowry. But the girl refuses to marry him when she wakes up to the fact that he is only looking out for his own interests. She then decides to start working in order to earn money to raise the child she is expecting. The film is an adaptation of the novel 'For Honor and Money' by Konstantinos Theotokis.

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