On Beauty

<p>What does it mean to be in the presence of beauty? And how can one explore and understand this through the filmography of writer director editor music composer and choreographer Sanjay Leela Bhansali? <p/>In this sweeping text Prathyush Parasuraman walks the reader through the auteur's films--those hailed those hauled--like <i>Gangubai Kathiawadi</i> <i>Padmaavat</i> <i>Devdas</i> <i>Ram-Leela</i> and <i>Saawariya</i>. With sensitivity and finesse <i>On Beauty</i> examines beauty as an idea and aesthetics as a philosophy while simultaneously shedding light on the making of Bhansali's painstaking frames through conversations with his cinematographers composers choreographers and production and costume designers. In these pages Bhansali's cinema comes alive.</p>