"India's ancient epic Ramayana gets a fresh, funny makeover in this award-winning animated film. With song and humor, director Nina Paley juxtaposes the split between Rama and Sita with her own divorce to tell "the greatest break-up story ever told."
Original 1920s recordings of singer Annette Hanshaw give musical voice to Sita, while amusing shadow puppets provide the narration for the colorful story."

Cast Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya, Reena Shah, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Pooja Kumar, Debargo Sanyal, Aladdin Ullah, Nitya Vidyasagar, Nina Paley, Deepti Gupta
Director Nina Paley

This so different than, well, what ever the description makes you think of. The Rama story gets condensed about as far as it can. It's the Hanshaw songs and the very spare and very effective animations that make the movie.

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On Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 4:19:31 AM UTC-4, T987654321 wrote:

"India's ancient epic Ramayana gets a fresh, funny makeover in this award-winning animated film. With song and humor, director Nina Paley juxtaposes the split between Rama and Sita with her own divorce to tell "the greatest break-up story ever told."

Original 1920s recordings of singer Annette Hanshaw give musical voice to Sita, while amusing shadow puppets provide the narration for the colorful story."

Cast Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya, Reena Shah, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Pooja Kumar, Debargo Sanyal, Aladdin Ullah, Nitya Vidyasagar, Nina Paley, Deepti Gupta
Director Nina Paley

This so different than, well, what ever the description makes you think of. The Rama story gets condensed about as far as it can. It's the Hanshaw songs and the very spare and very effective animations that make the movie.

I loved this movie. (Disclosure: I am not Indian.)

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Evelyn C. Leeper

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