By Vinayak Razdan on May 13, 2014
Swedish filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff visited India in 1950 and out of this visit came short films: Village Hindou (Hindu Village) about the lack of water in an Indian village, and Vinden och floden (The Wind and the River), about river life of Kashmir.
Presented in a quasi documentary manner with beautiful use of music, a blend Kashmir folk and Indian Classical (by Ravi Shankar), “Vinden och floden” can be summed up by its opening quote: