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Sita is singing the blues because her man done her wrong. We all know the feeling. One day you're flying high, completing an independent animated feature you've been working on tirelessly for years, writing and animating every frame yourself, and then the next moment your award-winning film is in copyright lock-down over fees for music written more than 60 years ago. Well that isn't exactly Sita's problem, but that is the dilemma of animator Nina Paley with her fantastic new feature film, Sita Sings the Blues . Layering several versions of the Hindu Sanskrit epic of [...]