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12 August 2009 (France)
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Tagline:
The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.
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An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. full summary | full synopsis
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Austin Asian American Film Festival Preview
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Watch and Listen: 'Pulp Fiction' Remix
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(From Slackerwood. 5 November 2009, 10:30 AM, PST)
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Annette Hanshaw | ... | Sita (singing) (voice) |
| Aseem Chhabra | ... | Narrator - Shadow Puppet 1 (voice) |
| Bhavana Nagulapally | ... | Narrator - Shadow Puppet 2 (voice) |
| Manish Acharya | ... | Narrator - Shadow Puppet 3 (voice) |
| Reena Shah | ... | Sita (voice) |
| Sanjiv Jhaveri | ... | Dave / Dasharatha / Ravana / Dhobi / Valmiki (voice) |
 | Pooja Kumar | ... | Surphanaka (voice) |
 | Debargo Sanyal | ... | Rama (voice) |
| Aladdin Ullah | ... | Mareecha / Hanuman (voice) |
| Nitya Vidyasagar | ... | Luv / Kush (voice) |
| Nina Paley | ... | Nina (voice) |
 | Deepti Gupta | ... | Kaikeyi (voice) |
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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.
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References Koi... Mil Gaya (2003)
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Ganpati
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While I still prefer "Les Triplettes de Belleville" for absolutely off-the-wall animated fun, this film rates high in the same nuttiness-meets-cultural-erudition category. The use of (mainly) Gus Kahn's early standards set against the Ramayana - and, then, just enough to create some counterpoint, the disintegration of a relationship - stretches the viewer's mind out of set categories, and makes for a lot of wit en route. The fact that the Indians discussing the epic make a fair number of factual mistakes (at once corrected) is amusing in itself - kind of like listening to nominal Christians confuse incidents from the New Testament. There's a gentle but clear thread of feminist indignation implied in the satire along the way. And many of the images are simply beautiful. - I do have to wonder, though, how this would (will?) be accepted in India, where, as the credits note, one satirical work on the Ramayana is already banned.