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Sita Sings the Blues-Oct 26

Sita Sings the Blues Class Discussion
VFFACULTY20 OCT 25, 2021 01:35PM

Other versions of the Ramayan that you a movement to strive to provide the same opportunities and rights
that the male gender possesses, to ALL genders. ―
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know about that diverges from the popular
narrative bringing up women ―
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Tribal Versions ―
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a belief which is understood only by a few people ―

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opinion treating all genders equally ―

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also i feel i would have loved if ram instead of changing himself
for the subjects, would have changed his subjects mindset for Equality. ―
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the better.
That women must have same rights and opportunities as men
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Nothing is a Fact, History is a beautiful fiction don't care abut it
just live your life. History is just a fiction created by historians
Feminism is when women, who have been historically subjugated,
inspired from true events or their imagination. Valmiki has bias,
are upheld in order to promote gender equality ―
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Tulsidas has bias. Writers and historians have bias. All just want
to set up their narrative. ―
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equity to women ―
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and we are setting our narrative by stating that that was a

narrative - inception ―
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males and females. ―
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I agree with you at the same time ―

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upliftment of women so as to achieve equality of opportunity for
men and women ―
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Sita Sings Blue(Tarun Sagar) A firm belief that both men and women are equal. ―
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I think Nina has tried to draw an analogy between what

feminism is basically striving for equality between men and
happened with Sita and what happened with her, she tries to
women in the society ―
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convey the message that whenever a women occupies a
powerful position then the society immediately diverts its The idea that men and women deserve the same rights and
attention from what she is capable of to how she appears, her opportunities. ―
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character etc. So no matter if its "Satya Yug" or "Kalyug" women
are still oppressed just the methodology and the way its Feminism is about all genders having equal rights and freedom.
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perceived has changed a little bit. Its always a women who has to
follow a set of code of conduct or else she isnt fit for the society
Uplifting women in male dominated societies. ―
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and in some sort gives full freedom to the males to do anything
which shows how fragile the masculinity of this patriarchal belief in equality for women ―
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society is.
Equality of Opportunities (not Equality of Outcomes), societal
The feminist undertones are obviously evident in the film as it upliftment of the marginalised gender to create equality.
deals with Sita’s and Nina’s struggle with their own emancipation. ―
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At the end of the day, it is the story of a woman finding solace in
the age-old epic during turbulent times in her own life, and A multi dimensional movemoent that aims for recogonisition of
finding through the character of Sita, her strength to move on. It is equality of all genders, not limited to just men and women, but
the story of two women separated by no less than a millennium, including the trans community. It is also greatly involved in
which is so different yet so similar in many ways. ―
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rights movements. ―
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What is feminism? All the genders having equality in rights and opportunities
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Equality between men and women. ―

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 To bring revolution in society for equal gender based rights Feminism, I think empasises on equality of gender. ―
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Initially, it was an endeavour to bring about equality of

the ideology which puts men and women at the same opportunity for men and women. Today it's a lot more radical.
social/economical/judicial level, and the effort made to make it ―
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happen. ―
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Equality for women without being biased to men ―
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The belief that all genders are different; but are equally capable
and worthy of equal opportunities ―
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to assure equal opportunities for all ―
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feminism what I understand is not just limited to one particular
gender but which targets in the treating all the genders equally. fighting patriarchy- that negatively affects all genders
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Feminism is the first step to gender equality. ―

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"favor" and when a women cooks or cleans she isn't doing her so
Feminism is basically acknowledging female perspectives as called "duty" ―
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important as males ―
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Woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
General view - a gender view between a man and woman ―
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equalities. ―
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Women Empowerment in Contemporary Global Society
feminism simply meansall genders are equal. periodt. ―
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simply trying to give every gender equal opportunity

men=women ―
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equal opportunities and rights for all genders, NOT only women, equality of oppurtunity ―
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it's NOT male-hate ―
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FEMINISM=EQUALITY ―
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Believing that everyone should be treated as equals, irrespective
for their gender. ―
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Equality of opportunity, irrespective of gender ―
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My view - where a women can posses her equality even when
equality between men and women and people of other identities in there is no gender bias in a place(*even when there are only the
terms of opportunity and access ―
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something which some people of the society still doesn't equality and equity between all genders ―
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understand ―
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equity for women ..... okay when we talk about equality the real
men = women ―
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feminism and today youth like us believe that posting stories on
Social, Political and social equality for women ―
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people aware but this would not help bringing women up in the
society ..... we need much more things to make people aware not
It is a movement striving towards equal rights for all genders
only to the people living in metropolitan cities but also to the rural
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part of the country...... ―
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equality between men and women ―

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According to me feminism is about creating an equal ground for
everyone in every aspect ―
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equality in every aspect ―
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FEMINISM is a belief of acknowledging and more like accepting

Social, Political and social equality for women ―
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that WOMEN ARE NO LESS THAN MEN. We are all equals. That
belief is not just important to be accepted by men of our society but
Equality in rights of men and women , no one gets a notch above - also we women. We need to feed this to our minds as well that DO
but since in our society women are suppressed , in the current era NOT HOLD BACK YOURSELF WITH AN EXCUSE THAT --- WE
it is more about uplifting women to bring them on equal level to ARE WOMEN AND THIS ISN'T FOR US. We need to give the
men ―
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bringing up women to the similar grounds of equality as men
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opportunites ―
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empowering women , gender equality , acknowledging everyone's
perspective ―
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gender without giving advantage to any particular sex.
giving women the power to make choices and help them establish ―
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an identity independent of their male counterparts. ―
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equity between woman and man ―
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Which films have you seen? Add any other bahubali ―
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film that you think about. none ―

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Ram lakhan ―
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Raavan ―
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Karan Arjun ―
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Main Hoon Na and Ram Lakhan. ―

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raavan and i think that shahrukh khan's RA.ONE had some
Ham Saath Saath Hain ―
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powerful like the mythological Raavan. ―
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None ―
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none ―
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old classic Ramayan serial ―
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not a movie, but 1987 ramayana serial ―
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Ramayana: The Lengend of Prince Rama ―
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Ramayana:The Epic ―
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main hoon na ―
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Kabhi khushi kabhi gam is somewhat close ―
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sri rama rajyam ―
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The Indian television serial ―
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Seen all except Raavan ―
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None ―
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KABIR SINGH' ―
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this was the first ever film relating to ramayana, and it was very
RA-ONE ―
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critically analyse those viewpoints. ―
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Hum Saath Saath Hai ―
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There is an amazing anime made on Ramayana! The art style is
Main hoon na ―
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phenomenal! ―
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None ―
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Hum saath saath hain, Main hoon na, ―

ANONYMOUS Main Hoon na, Ram Lakhan, Hum saath saath hai, Ra-One (almost
all) Also animated Ramayana which was released in year 2010
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OMG ―
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none ―
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the ramayana serials, hum saath saath hain ―
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Ram Leela ―
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Sri rama rajyam ―
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harshad mehta scam 1992 ―

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none ―
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Troy ―
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Ra-One ―
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Ra-One ―
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none ―
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Raid ―
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OMG 2 ―
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rudraksh ―
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ravaan (2010), main hoon na <3 ―
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nope ―
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None ―
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anupmaa ―
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Ramayana: The Epic ―
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main hoon na , hum sath sath hain , ra-one and ramanand sagar's
Hero.. Love story of a spy ―
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ramayan ―
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Raavan, ―
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I have seen ra.one and another movie would be judgemental hai
kya ―
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RA-ONE -> it has the characters RA-one( ravan) and G-ONE(
indicating ram or the good one). ―
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I have seen Ram Lakhan ―
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Raone ―
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Bharat Milap ―
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 PREM RATAN DHAN PAYO has a glimpse of the "RAM-RAJYA" the 3 shadows narrating in the background was like a podcast;
which we get to see in the RAMAYANA. It portrays a kingdom as loved their spontaneity. ―
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virtuous and idol as Ayodhya. ―
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nina's storyline was rather sad yet the most interesting one.
bajrangi bhaijan ―
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Bahubali ―
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Sita -amish ―
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the ramayan that they are familiar with and points out the fatal
flaws in this heavily glorified epic ―
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Which animation style / storyline did you The conversation between the three shadow figures made things
like and why? more interesting and hilarious ―
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this one ―
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this one as it discussed a very new and refreshing storyline, and

the storytelling was very unique as well ―
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have been interested in philosophies of various religions. There's a
I liked the conversions between the Indian and Western animation lot of building up before the actual Ramayana that for me dismiss
styles as and when she sung the blues (western) and continued the some popular narratives like the piously chaste character for
story (indian). It was a nice touch. ―
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Characters and songs ―

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I loved the cartoony style of Sita Sings The Blues because it I loved the 3 shadows doing the podcast thing and the storyline
undermines the "unquestionable" tag of the epics and enables where there are comparisons between ramayan and modern
discussion on topics formerly treated as gospel. I loved the shadow version is my favorite . I also like the fact that they also showed
puppets bits the most ―
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showing that each and every character did some wrong leading to
blood shed ―
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I like the dialogue delivery and non-song animations.
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this one because of the prespective shown through songs and
animations ―
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I liked how it highlighted how Sita felt through songs and
animation. ―
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I have known the whole prevalent story of the Ramayana but had
never seen it being represented in such a way where you also
the animated version where goddess Sita was singing English
question the events that happened after them returning from
songs etc. ―
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Lanka. So I liked the parts where it showed us more than the
generic narrative. ―
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The character models; and the parallels drawn between
relationships today and Ramayana ―
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this animation is one of my favourite and I really love the storyline
which dave and nina shared. and the animation where sita askes
I liked background music ―
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When the question of RAAVANS Character comes up! The American couple and the parallel between their story and the
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As a cinematographer, I love anything that has originality, fusion Animation style consisting of motion graphics, 3d animation and
of 2d, realistic camera work, squiggle motion and GOOD SOUND good bg. ―
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EFFECTS THAT COMPLEMENT THE VISUALS! ―
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I liked how the director Nina Paley relates herself with Sita
I like how the 3 different styles Sita singing, the actual storytelling throughout the story. To be more precise, we see that in the climax,
and the modern story of Nina are shown simultaneously. Sita finds her solace in Mother Earth and Nina Paley finds her
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songs and expressions mainly ―

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power-packed performance which actually gave me goosebumps!
The storyline of Nina and the parallel to actual Ramayana ―
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(modern day breakup v/s ancient day "break-up") ―
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the three shadow puppets and the parallel between the women in
With a narrator ―
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I liked the conversation between the three shadow figures how the three puppets talks about each scene from different
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nina" ―
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 It was really creatively depicted, the narration in the form of the parallel drawn between modern day women and sita
shadow puppets was eye catching. Sound effects were good as well. ―
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no idea ―
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I loved this movie because of its creative style and its crude
language. Nina challenges the blind faith of people in the hero this one... though there are some facts missing but the sufferings of
figure of Ram and is very blunt about it. I love how she makes us sita are all true.. i mean did the film lie tho ―
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introspect on the ingrained patriarchy in us and our
unwillingness to question anything which might seem religiously
I liked how the three shadow puppets add humour to the story
wrong. Like most people felt a little disturbed by the language.
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doesn't that shows how we have been moulded to think in a certain
way and not to question religion or question it in limits.
the one in which songs were portrayed because it shows sita's
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feeling most correctly ―
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the shadow puppets (cuz of the humor they added) ―

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