TY - BOOK AU - Prarhyush Parasuraman TI - ON BEAUTY : : Cinema of Sanjay Leela Bhansali SN - 9780143465980 U1 - 791.43092 PY - 2024/// CY - Haryana PB - Ebury Press - Penguin Books KW - Recreational and performing arts KW - Public performances KW - Film, Radio, and Television KW - Film KW - Standard subdivisions KW - History, geographic treatment, biography KW - Biography KW - Indian Movies N1 - 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? In this sweeping text, Prathyush Parasuraman walks the reader through the auteur’s films—those hailed, those hauled—like Gangubai Kathiawadi, Padmaavat, Devdas, Ram-Leela, and Saawariya. With sensitivity and finesse, On Beauty 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; Khamoshi: The Musical Movie Darshan in Devdas Movie Saawariya Movie Ram Leela Movie Gangubai Kathiawadi Movie ER -