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The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told
March 24, 2010 | 11 Comments
Based on The Ramayana.
“Sita Sings the Blues” is based on the Hindu epic “The Ramayana”. Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina Paley is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Ramayana. Set to the 1920′s jazz vocals of torch singer Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.” It is written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley.
“Sita Sings the Blues” was released in 2008 only after long negotiations with the copyright holders of the 80-year-old songs recorded by Annette Hanshaw. Following the experience of almost having her film blocked from distribution, Nina Paley released it freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, and now devotes a significant portion of her time to free culture activism. She is Artist in Residence at the non-profit QuestionCopyright.org.
If you’d like to help pay off the $50,000.00 loan she took out to pay the music monopoly fee, you can donate to the Sita Distribution Project (tax-deductible in the US) at http://questioncopyright.org/sita_distribution#donate . Donations to that project go exclusively to that purpose and other expenses Nina incurred in releasing the film.
What is “unconditional love”? Does it even exist?
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Nah, I do not believe in true unconditional love. Atleast I haven’t come across.
Unconditional love does exist…..but only during childhood. I don’t think anyone but children can love unconditionally.
I do not believe this is true.
If one could forgive all of him/her mistakes and still love him/her we can call it as “unconditional love” which we can do to our kids (till the age of 5) and pets!
yes, it does. God’s love is unconditional and so is a mother’s love for her child.
No. Except maybe small babies and dogs.
haha..I agree with Nirmala. Thats the perfect definition.
Mothers love is unconditional love.
Yes, I believe it exists….not just with a mother-child but also with a couple deeply in love.
Sure, it exists. Most often it so happens that ppl enjoying the “unconditional love” take it for granted and don’t realize that they are being showered with it! Its human nature! Its my personal opinion from my observation.
I answered with my previous comment before seeing that lengthy video. If I had seen the video I wudnt have left a comment at all cos I dont understand the connection of this woman’s life, Ramayana and unconditional love! Anyways my comments for that video : “No comments”!