tamannam Being Indian I of course know the story of ramayana..it was glorified for all of us in our childhood as Rama is considered an incarnation of God. Being a woman, I have come to realize over the years what a terrible husband and man figure he was..something this movie highlights beautifully. this movie so creative, so well made, so funny, so colorful, so musical..just simply loved it. I always thought we indians are not creative, all views have reversed after seeing this movie. I think I would like to own it. It is sure to cheer you up and is what movies are all about..entertaining and educative and creative- all at the same time.

shricool51 if you really wanna know this story about Ramayan then you should watch (1992) Movie "Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259534/this movie is nothing but garbage. shamefully western people people picks Hindu religious stories and Most respected people and make comedy movies to degrade them. i don't understand are they testing hindu peoples tolerance? you are doing all this because no hindu shoots you in your head for insulting his religion just like muslims, well that day will come soon when hindu people will lose their patience and attack those who insulting hinduism just like muslims. i think thats why you people doing this so later you can declare hindus terrorist too. why don't you make fun of Jesus? you know what make movie like this of Prophet Muhammad i dare you.

xpqs First the good parts of the movie were the music sung beautifully and the animation done in a pastiche of styles.The bad parts were the story itself which was a projection of the authors' sense of victimhood onto the story of Rama. Nina and her boyfriend are living in domestic bliss with their cat in San Francisco when he gets a contract in India. Though she misses him greatly he's enjoying his time there and even extends his stay away from her. She leaves her comfortable apartment and cat to follow him to India only to be unceremoniously dumped. Life is a drag.She ends up in a cold apartment in New York reminiscing about the good old days and reading the Ramayana for some reason. Things now become clear to her as the book, rather than being the Story of Rama venerated for millennia, is really the Story of Sita, reflecting the eternal suffering of women at the hands of unfeeling men. Such as perhaps ... the author ??The movie ends with Nina's revenge on India for stealing away her boyfriend by having the Hindu God Vishnu obsequiously massaging the feet of his wife. ha,ha :{This exercise in self pity has certainly been rewarding for the author. For the rest of us however, this type of self centeredness and trivialization of another culture's deeply held beliefs are one of the reasons why Americans are viewed with justifiable suspicion and hostility in the cultural realm.

les-ferguson The wonders of the internet! I came across this little masterpiece whilst checking out the Internet Archive. After watching about ten minutes of stuttered streaming I decided to download it. (Legally, since it's released under a creative commons licence). This is a remarkable piece of individual genius. A true labour of love with a dash of revenge thrown in. Great animation, great story interpretation, sexiest animated chicks since Jessica Rabbit (and with four arms, no less), funny, witty, poignant & hell, just bloody brilliant. I came to this film knowing a (very) little about this classic Indian story and apart from royally entertaining me, it also inspired me to learn more. The biographical excerpts which some others have found distracting I found to be an integral part of the film, without which it would have been (for me) a much less satisfying experience. See this film. Shalom!