Blue No More

Girl meets boy. Girl gets married. Girl moves to India to be with boy. Girl gets dumped. Crap.

In her animated film “Sita Sings the Blues”, Nina Paley draws comparisons between the age old epic, and her own story of being dumped by her husband. After moving to India when her then-husband for his job, she discovered Ramayana. On a short trip to New York, her husband dumped her via….. email. Although she couldn’t relate to Ramayana at first the story later inspired her to create “Sita Sings the Blues” all from her home computer.

Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, “Sita Sing the Blues”, the film is like a yummy candy land ride of beautifully saturated colors and quirky characters. Smart and funny, the story is more “Sitayana” than “Ramayana”, telling the story from Sita’s point of view.

Currently scheduled to screen at the Berlinale Film Festivale in February, Nina hopes to eventually distribute the film at independent theaters around the world.

Take that Rama.

View the trailer.

Sita Sings the Blues www.sitasingstheblues.com

Nina Paley’s website blog.ninapaley.com/

**Nina still needs some $$$$ to convert the video movie into film. So if you like what you see and want to help out visit her website.

The Berlin Film Festival
www.berlinale.de