Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues Part A

Sita Sings the Blues:

• This is basically a shortened, way less detailed version of the Ramayana mainly focusing on Sita. In the original story, I always liked Sita and wanted to change it up a little bit this week so I decided to go with the video. The part that I want to focus on for a story this week is the part where Ravana captured Sita. Last week, I retold the story of Sita while she was in captivity and I told it in her perspective. This week, I think it would be neat to use the part when she was captured by Ravana and put it in his perspective. The video itself is very vague on why Ravana wants to capture Sita, so I think this would allow me to get very creative when writing the story in his perspective. The video says that Ravana was a good King and it seems like the only bad thing he did was capture Sita. I did not get this vibe from the book. This part confused me because I got the impression that Ravana was friends with the rakshas. I want to change this part of the story, put it in Ravana's perspective and maybe answer some of the blanks that the book left me with about Ravana. I think by putting this story in Ravana's perspective I will be able to be creative and explain why he decided to take Sita. Where Sita and Ravana childhood friends and Ravana was secretly in love with her? Was there some old rivalry between Ravana and Rama that would make him want to steal his wife? I feel like there is a lot of options when it come to retelling this story.
• Bibliography: "Sita Sings the Blues," a film by Nina Paley

  

  Movie cover of Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley
  Source: Alchetron