Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1959
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Merchant Ivory Productions
The Sword and the Flute (1959)
Audience Score
Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings while an offscreen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of Akbar 15421605 who united what is now India and Pakistan and his son Jahangir 15691627 Two schools of the miniature paintings done by anonymous artists flourished after Akbar established unity and peace across what had been many smaller states the Moghul Islamic school and the Rajput Hindu school The Moghul paintings record the events of the court while the Rajput school connects physical beauty and in particular the longing of women to the transcendent values of the spirit