Sita Sings the Blues
Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.
From the archive
DVD VERSION! This is my own DVD version -- UNofficial, but loaded with goodies. You can find it as a direct-download here, but please if possible use the torrent and help seed! DVD features: High-quality video encoding; Director's Commentary featuring Nina Paley and Karl Fogel; Subtitles including English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Dutch and Finnish; Customized chapter selection screens with screenshot previews - chapters are biased towards the Annette Hanshaw songs (for lack of anything better to base them on); Two trailers; Full-resolution anamorphic 16x9 video with 16x9 menus; A few fun easter-eggs. Please download, help seed, spread the word, and let me know what you think! 1080p/FLAC version: This is a remuxing of the 1080p .mp4 version of the movie as originally posted, combining the exact same video with the original uncompressed audio track in FLAC. That means that as of now, this is the highest possible quality version available. NOTICE: Please use the torrent if you can - it is webseeded by the uploaded version here yet will probably give you better download speeds. 720p AVCHD .iso: Please use the torrent... This is burnable to one blank DVD, and should play on many blu-ray players including the Playstation 3. (check your player's documentation for the "AVCHD" logo; if it doesn't have it, bug the manufacturer to implement it in a firmware upgrade!) This .iso contains the original 720p video (non-transcoded) as well as original PCM audio. AVCHD is basically like a blu-ray quality disc but smaller, small enough to fit on a single-layer DVD blank. I've found that the disc is unrecognized in my computer's DVD drive after burning, but it plays in my Panasonic BD35k blu-ray player just beautifully, in full 720p HD.
Why this is free to watch
Sita Sings the Blues (2008) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Nina Paley
- Starring
- Reena Shah, Debargo Sanyal, Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Pooja Kumar
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