Sita Sings The Blues Analysis
Sita sings the Blues is an Americanized Indian epic of the Ramayana. It focuses on both the lives of the artist and Sita. Scenes around how both Sita and the artist where in love then went through a break up. I feel that Sita sings the Blues is a hybridization of Indian and westernized culture and art. Its American interpretation of the Indian culture. While this movie has good entertainment value, it’s not an entity accurate representation of Indian culture, but rather a surface level introduction.
I feel that the Sita sings the blues it connects the culture are honor of the word of a person, and shows some things but it is not culturally accurate for example, they dramatize many of the scenes being more comedy then historically accurate, the singing was westernized to help westerners to culture adapt to Indian culture. This is done by using humor and blues music to convey the sense of sadness. Sita has during the epic helps to give the watcher a sense of emotion. The miss interpretation of culture for example Rama is portrayed in Sita sings the blues, in the …show more content…
Which brings a sense of racism. Not totally accurate has some western feel it, would feel more authentic if Indians made the video. In my option good for entertainment, I highly doubt it accuracy as some things are western sigma. It would be good for westerners with little to no knowledge of Indian culture, “To sum up, "Sita Sings the Blues" is based on an adaptation of the Ramayana, a Hindu epic, and some Hindus find the film offensive. An organized (lawful and peaceful) protest caused the venue to cancel the showing, which later took place in a private home.” I think it was supposed to be a humorous parody of what Americans think India looks like. The lack of showing the importance of certain actions in the film for example; how Sita met Rama, the importance of the Bow in Indian culture the sense of honor the bow
I feel that the Sita sings the blues it connects the culture are honor of the word of a person, and shows some things but it is not culturally accurate for example, they dramatize many of the scenes being more comedy then historically accurate, the singing was westernized to help westerners to culture adapt to Indian culture. This is done by using humor and blues music to convey the sense of sadness. Sita has during the epic helps to give the watcher a sense of emotion. The miss interpretation of culture for example Rama is portrayed in Sita sings the blues, in the …show more content…
Which brings a sense of racism. Not totally accurate has some western feel it, would feel more authentic if Indians made the video. In my option good for entertainment, I highly doubt it accuracy as some things are western sigma. It would be good for westerners with little to no knowledge of Indian culture, “To sum up, "Sita Sings the Blues" is based on an adaptation of the Ramayana, a Hindu epic, and some Hindus find the film offensive. An organized (lawful and peaceful) protest caused the venue to cancel the showing, which later took place in a private home.” I think it was supposed to be a humorous parody of what Americans think India looks like. The lack of showing the importance of certain actions in the film for example; how Sita met Rama, the importance of the Bow in Indian culture the sense of honor the bow