"If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.” -David Lynch

Cinema is a visual storytelling that can show us anything and everything through the lenses of its creator. Films are the best means to provoke thoughts and ideas to connect with societal instances, influences and circumstances. Cinema aesthetics refers to the visual and auditory elements that create a unique atmosphere and style of a film. It encompasses various aspects, including cinematography and visual composition, such as framing, lighting, camera angles, production design, sound design, editing, etc. Cinema aesthetics can be used to establish tone and atmosphere and to convey themes and emotions.

The book “Cinema Aesthetic: Retrospective of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen” offers a collection of concepts and perspectives on areas like the characterisation of female protagonists, social inequality, political turmoil, echoes of an era, film landscape, deconstructive approach, psychoanalytical approach, post-partition trauma, retrospective of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen, visual legacy, comparative study of cinematic themes and styles, analysis of gender discrimination, analysis of socio-political realities, psychoanalytic exploration of repetition, aesthetic and thematic of cinematic, চলচ্চিত্রের পটভূমির পরিবর্তন, art of subtle symbolism, comparative study of films, humanism and realism in cinema, influence of italian neo-realism, decoding his film poster, কল্পকাহিনী থেকে বাস্তবধৰ্মীতা, tracing of diasporic trauma, cinematic experimentation, tribute to bangladesh's marginalized communities, apocalyptic disorder, post-modernism, enduring influence, coping mechanism, intertextually, many more. Collectively, the chapters would help in understanding the different perspectives of films through the retrospective of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen.