Sita Sings the Blues

The lyrical voice of 1920s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw highlights Nina Paley's colorfully animated, award-winning film, which is based on The Ramayana of Valmiki and narrated by Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, and Manish Acharya, about a beautiful Indian women (voiceover by Reena Shah) who misses her husband when he is banished to the forest in 14th century India and a modern-day wife (voiceover by Nina Paley) in San Francisco who is rejected by her husband when he heads to India for a contract job.
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