Sita Sings the Blues

Sita Sings the Blues
Poster for Sita Sings the Blues
Directed byNina Paley
Written byNina Paley
Produced byNina Paley
StarringSanjiv Jhaveri
Nina Paley
Deepti Gupta
Debargo Sanyal
Reena Shah
Pooja Kumar
Aladdin Ullah
Narrated byAseem Chhabra
Bhavana Nagulapally
Manish Acharya
Music byAnnette Hanshaw et al.
Distributed byGKIDS
Release date
  • February 11, 2008 (2008-02-11) (Berlin)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$290,000[1]

Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 American animated musical romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley. It intersperses events from the Ramayana, light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets, musical interludes voiced with tracks by Annette Hanshaw and scenes from the artist's own life. The ancient mythological and modern biographical plot are parallel tales, sharing numerous themes.

  1. ^ Largely for music, copyright clearance and distribution. Paley, Nina. Sita's Distribution Plan Archived January 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. December 28, 2008. Accessed on: January 31, 2009.