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“Sita Sings the Blues”: An Animated Indian Myth set to 1920s Jazz

Posted on November 27, 2010 by

"Sita Sings the Blues" is one of those multi-thread, multi-cultural vanity projects that shouldn't work, but somehow does.  Producer / animator / director / writer Nina Paley manages to blend the ancient Indian myth of Ramayana with 1920s jazz provided by diva Annette Hanshaw , as told by three contemporary Indians represented as shadow puppets. …

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