Reading notes: Sita Sings the Blues, Part A

• modern family in san Francisco, Nina and Dave
• Dave gets job in India and leaves
• Why is Rama blue? The other brothers aren't.
• Ayodhya
• Comical version
• "Instead of crowning you king, you are exiled for 14 years"
• Rama and Sita so in love, even with monsters all around
• Rama slays them with ease
• His brother did not go with him in the forest in this version
• Ravana steals Sita, he doesn't seem so bad except that
• Sister of Ravana tells him that Rama is killing all his rakashas, tells him how beautiful Sita is
• Deer form still used to distract Rama, leaves Sita in hut
• If Rama can slay all kinds of rakashas, why can't he capture one deer?
• "What wouldn't I do for that man? I'll make sure he never doubts me" Foreshadowing?
• Ravana takes Sita, takes her to Lanka, drops jewelry (how much jewelry does she have??)
• Hanuman born to meet Rama, he meets Rama as his own self and offers himself as servant to Rama
• Dave's contract gets extended, suggests Nina come to India
• Hanuman goes to Lanka
• Sita won't give in to Ravana, he's shocked, gives her 2 months to decide to marry him or die
• Sita has powers to reduce someone to ash but she won't because Rama didn't tell her too?? She should have just beat Ravana as he was trying to take her in the first place if she has her own powers
• Hanuman gets tail set on fire and sets fire to the town, then leaps back to Rama
• Why couldn't she just go with Hanuman then Rama can defeat Ravana later if needed
• Nina goes to India to be with Dave, he says no kissing in public, and doesn't want to "do it" that night either
• Hanuman gets all the monkeys to go to Lanka, crossed the sea
• Seems the monkeys are winning pretty easily
• Rama shoots Ravana's many heads with arrows
• Rama dismisses Sita because he doesn't know if she is pure anymore
• Ravana never forced himself on Sita, only would if she came willingly 
• She was going to kill herself, but she believed her because she passed the test, they are back together
• Nina gets paid to fly to NY for her job
• 14 years over, went back home

Can't Have the Rainbow Without the Rain (still from Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley)

Bibliography

Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley, Youtube.