The Way of Beauty is a DVD which features a 60 minute documentary which tells the story of the Indo-western music group SHAKTI. Formed in 1975, the group pioneered a groundbreaking and highly influential musical East-meets-West approach. The other features are a 45 minutes film called "Sound Check" and "Saturday Night in Bombay" 55 minutes. The films are directed by Partho Sen Gupta between 2000 and 2006

Here in this film about the Indian classical music, the sitar maestro Pt. Ravi Shankar and the santoor maestro Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma explaining their concepts of a raga, a gharana, and their world of music. Characteristics of various gharana/schools such as the Jaipur gharana, the Kirana gharana, the Agra gharana, the Patiala gharana, the Mewati gharana are explained along with the contribution made by their leading exponents.