Sita Sings the Blues
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| Directed by | Nina Paley |
| Written by | Nina Paley |
| Produced by | Nina Paley |
| Starring | Sanjiv Jhaveri Nina Paley Deepti Gupta Debargo Sanyal Reena Shah Pooja Kumar Aladdin Ullah |
| Narrated by | Aseem Chhabra Bhavana Nagulapally Manish Acharya |
| Music by | Annette Hanshaw et al. |
| Distributed by | GKIDS |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $290,000 |
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 Paley's own life. The ancient mythological and modern biographical plot are parallel tales, sharing numerous themes.