Mumbai’s OG bespoke tailor shares 50 yrs of experience in cutting the right fits

Madhav Agasti celebrates 50 years of dressing the likes of Bal Thackeray, Sharad Pawar and Amitabh Bachchan with a book titled ‘Stitching stardom’

MUMBAI: Mumbai’s bespoke tailors have long built their reputations by dressing its leading men. Amitabh Bachchan often donned suits distinguished by the rakish ‘Akbar cut’— after Kachins and Gabbana founder Akbar Shahpurwala — and Badasaab’s Kishore Bajaj outfitted everyone from Sanjay Dutt to Mithun Chakraborty. Their contemporary Madhav Agasti, however, was always drawn to the villains. Across some 350 films, Agasti dressed a rogue’s gallery of baddies, from Anupam Kher’s Dr Dang to, most famously, Mogambo, brought to life by

At a time when India’s noteworthy tailoring outfits traced their lineage to British cutting, Madhav Agasti was an outlier. (Hindustan Times)