# Has anyone seen The Ramayana yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 27, 2026, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-ramayana-yet/1034185 "2026-10-27T08:02:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-ramayana-yet/1034185/4 "2026-10-27T13:22:41Z")
If you would like to watch a very creative, amusing, unconventional, and amusing view of the Ramayana from the woman’s POV, I highly recommend _Sita Sings the Blues_ (2008) by Nina Paley. If you don’t belive me, here’s what Roger Ebert (the real guy, when he was alive) [said about it](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sita-sings-the-blues-2009): > I was enchanted. I was swept away. I was smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original. It brings together four entirely separate elements and combines them into a great whimsical chord. Paley became an anti-copyright activist in the course of making the film, because she wanted to use songs from the 1920s by Annette Hanshaw, and was shocked to find that they were still under copyright and that she would have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for the right to include them in the film. You can read all about that battle [here](https://www.library.illinois.edu/scp/podcast/nina-paley-no-longer-sings-the-copyright-blues/). As a result, _Sita_ is now CC0, copyright-free, so you can watch it for free and do whatever you want with it. Enjoy. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RzTg7YXuy34/hqdefault.jpg "Sita Sings the Blues") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTg7YXuy34) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-ramayana-yet/1034185)._