Extra Credit Reading Notes, Sita Sings The Blues Part B

   Bibliography: Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues, http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2015/05/week-1-of-1-paleys-sita-sings-blues-b.html

-Dave broke up with Nina by email and she is devastated.

-Rama finds out that Sita, his wife, is pregnant. Also, Dhobi, a laundry man, compares her wife to Sita and beats her for being unfaithful.

-Lakshmana, Rama's brother, takes Sita into the forest to abandon her, Rama's tells him to do this.

-Sita would kill herself if she was not pregnant, rather than get abandon in this forest but Valmiki rescues her.

-Sita gives births to twins after she sings the blues on the shore of the river. The twins, Lava and Kusha.

-Nina wants Dave back and calls him in India.

-Rama hears his boys singing in the forest and figures out they are his sons. He makes Sita prove her purity.

-Sita sings about her love for Rama then leaves them.

-While Nina is in New York, she reads the Ramayana and works on this film.


Sita Sings The Blues 


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