0:55 - Even after Sita proves herself and shows that she is pure, Rama still gives into the whispers of his subjects and banishes Sita. She's just found out she is pregnant and is filled with joy, but he casts her out because he can't cast aside the wonderings of a laundryman.
0:57 - Sita singing the blues about Rama casting her out when she's pregnant. Rama's walking all over her and she's heartbroken. I think it's clear that he always doubted Sita even after the gods backed her up and he just couldn't get past her having been in Ravana's dwelling, even though it was literally forced upon her. This is where we really start to see the comparison between Nina and Sita, having left everything for their love and then just being cast to the side.
(The narrators discussing Rama's wariness toward Sita even after
the funeral pyre; Image Source)
1:01 - Valmiki meets Sita, who tells him all about Rama and what they've been through. Valmiki writes this all down to create The Ramayana.
1:02 - Sita singing the blues while laying around crying - she is so upset over having been cast out by her love. She's been through a lot of crap, exiled with her husband, then kidnapped, then exiled by her husband while very pregnant. She doesn't even know what to do with herself and she literally turns blue while lamenting her woes.
1:04 - Lava and Kusha are born and Sita gets color back in her life again - they are her reason to be happy now.
1:05 - Valmiki teaches the twins to sing about how perfect Rama is. Sita is a much more forgiving woman than me, because I certainly wouldn't want my sons to be singing praises of their deadbeat dad who exiled me.
1:11 - Rama hears his sons singing about him and of course wants them to come rule alongside him, asking Sita to come too as an after note, once she proves her purity again of course. As if standing in a funeral pyre or praising Rama every day despite being exiled didn't prove her devotion.
1:12 - Sita shocks everyone by asking Mother Earth to take her back into her womb if she is pure. She, of course, is pure, and is taken away, surprising everyone. This was an interesting twist because you'd think that Sita would be so ready to go back with Rama since she adores him, but I think she's just so tired of it all. She knows this way that her name will be cleared and her sons have a place to go, but she gets to leave it all behind.
1:17 - At the beginning of the film, we saw Lakshmi (Sita) rubbing Vishnu's (Rama's) feet, but here at the end it's reversed, with Lakshmi enjoying the foot rub.
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