Reading Diary: Sita Sings the Blues Part A Week 11

The animation is simple but it works
The music seems extremely old
Title screen is a bit cheesy
Based on Valmiki’s Ramayana
Images of the god’s and there is rama on the bed of milk and serpents
Ok so these are all the gods and the characters from the story
Ok the mucis is much better now
SanFransico scene
Not sure what this has to do with the Ramayana
Three god figures discussing the Rama
Ayodhya
The characters compare the story to the bible as it being true
Laxman is Lakshmana????
Discussing the different names of sita
Explaining the story of Rama’s exile
This is a humerous approach
Animation of Rama being crowned
This seems like a very accurate albeit loose retelling of the Ramayana
Ok this is funny because they are telling the Ramayana but finding a way to incorporate the different versions that have been told over time. You know how each story puts it’s own spin on it.
Back to this old song
Ok they have taken a song and found a way to use it to tell the story of Sita following Rama into exile… So creative
Not sure what the Eyeball bats represent
Oh it is the story of Rama killing the rakshasa army in the forest
This is funny she is just singing and this plays out like a romantic dance
Ok the man is leaving for India
The story of Ravana
So Ravana is not evil but actually devoted to Shiva
He is a good king
Kink of sri lanka
Nasa images of the bridges
The movie is making fun of the lotus and how it is so big in the culture
Who is all this music from?
Using the song to confess Sita’s love and Loyalty to Rama
The background music fits well with the capturing of Sita by Ravana
They are kind of making fun of the fact that Sita left for exile without any jewelry and yet she is able to drop some for Rama to find her
The hunaman origin
Ok hunaman is incarnation of shiva….
How many incarnations of Shiva are in this story
Back to the couple in San Francisco
I think this is poking fun at the relationship between Rama and Sita and how they are never really together
Sita in Lanka
Surprised faced Ravana
This animation is so simple and cheesy yet it fits in with the story so perfectly
This song is being used to display sita missing Rama in Lanka and the animation works perfectly to tell the story
Hunaman is burning down Lanka
The characters poke fun at how easy it would have been to leave Lanka with Hanuman
Blood thirsty woman lol
The explanation of the difference between actual monkeys and the monkey army is good
Now the army is marching to Lanka the animation shows them walking on water and Rama knocking on the door
Where is this music from because it fits so perfectly with the sory
Old time batman tv series and comic book animation
Ravana’s heads flying over Sita as she sings
The couple reuniting is much like the reuniting of Rama and Sita
It’s cold and he wont come near her like Rama did to Sita