Sita Sings the Blues

Sita (singing)

Narrator - Shadow Puppet 1 (voice)

Narrator - Shadow Puppet 2 (voice)

Narrator - Shadow Puppet 3 (voice)

Sita

Dave / Dasharatha /

Surphanaka

Rama

Mareecha /

Nina (voice)

Kaikeyi

The intermission in the movie is a tribute to Bollywood, the Indian Film Industry.

There are two cats in the film - Lexi and Bruno. Lexi is the striped cat that Nina and Dave had in San Francisco. Bruno is the black cat that Nina has in her apartment in New York. According to Nina Paley's Director's Commentary, Bruno does, in fact, sleep in Nina's armpit, as shown at the end of the movie.

The musicians are shown playing with the left and right hands reversed. The clarinet, like all woodwinds, is played with the left hand at the top. The violin is held with the left hand and bowed with the right. But in the movie, the clarinet player has the right hand at the top, and the violin is held with the right and bowed with the left.

Rama: Assemble the monkey warriors!

Narrator - Shadow Puppet 3: [as Sita] Rama will come here, and you still have one last chance, because once he comes here... You know... Your ass is grass.

Surphanaka: Dear brother, Ravana, have you seen Rama's wife Sita...? She is the most beautiful woman in the world. Her skin is fair like the lotus blossom. Her eyes are like lotus pools. Her hands are like... from... lotuses. Her breasts like... BIG... ROUND... FIRM... JUICY... LOTUSES.