Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues, Part B (More Reading)

The second half of this movie is pretty much about Rama's exile of Sita and how devastated she was in the forest. The narrators mentioned that Rama almost always had this element of doubt of Sita's pureness, which I believe was heightened when the people of his kingdom were referring to it with a bad connotation. Therefore, in order to please the people, Rama banished Sita into the forest even though she was pregnant with his twin children. Even though she was banished from the kingdom, Sita prayed for Rama everyday, which I believed showed her unconditional love to him. Throughout the second act of this film, Sita sings the blues for and because of Rama, even up to the point of creating a river of tears. I think it is interesting how the female narrator interpreted Sita singing songs to Rama as her unconditional love to him. However, the two male narrators thought Sita singing songs to Rama was unfair to her because she should not love someone who does not treat her right. I believe that all three narrators are correct...Sita cannot help but love Rama because she has been through so much with him and her devotion to him is pure. However, on the other hand, if Rama has this notion that Sita is bad and contaminated even though she has always proven her true and pure love for him, then let the man go. Sita deserves better than that which she gets at the very end of the movie when it is finaly Sita who is getting her feet rubbed by Rama and not the other way around like at the beginning of the movie. :)

Bibliography: Nina, Paley. Sita Sings the Blues. Link.

Sita Sings the Blues. Wikimedia Commons.