Came across an interesting article on Wired.
NEW YORK -- Amid the documentaries and live-action features at this year's Tribeca Film Festival is a first for the event -- a feature-length, computer-generated animated film rendered entirely by a single animator, working out of a home office.
Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues, which makes its North American premiere Friday at the festival, tells two parallel stories: the ancient Hindu epic the Ramayana and the breakup of Paley's 21st-century marriage. It does so through four distinct styles of animation, a "greek chorus" of Indonesian shadow puppets and wildly imaginative musical interludes that use authentic 1920s blues recordings to link narratives 3,000 years apart.
The article has got an interview of Nina Paley as well as a trailer of the film.
From what I read from the article, it features Rama leaving Sita.
Wired: You voiced the role of yourself, and that leads to the film's most excruciating scene, in which your character asks your husband to take you back.
Paley: [Laughs.] Isn't that pathetic? I wanted people to feel my pain. And believe me, that's just a little taste of it. [Laughs.] When this sort of thing happens to you, it's so shameful, so humiliating. Which is why I included that scene of Sita sitting there on the banks of the river saying, "I must have committed a terrible sin in a previous life to deserve such suffering." There's always a sense that, if something bad happens to you, that there's something really wrong with you. And I love that even Sita believes this, because she's completely stainless, that's the whole point of her character. I feel that airing this stuff out is the way to take the shame out of it. Plus, pain is funny!
The Ramayana says that Rama chose to leave Sita because of his duty as a king. In the otherwise spotless character of Rama, I feel, this is a huge blemish. And so do a lot of people. Many "experts" though have felt otherwise.
Should be interesting to see how Ramayana and the character of Sita is treated in this film.
Links :
Wired article : http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/news/2008/04/sita?currentPage=all
Site of the film : http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/