Mumbai’s respected menswear designer Madhav Agasti’s book Stitching Stardom (Penguin Random House India) is a tribute to an era gone-by — the prime days of the 1980s and 90s Hindi cinema. As a child, Agasti was good at sketching, and watched his father and neighbour work at the sewing machine. By Grade 10, he was able to sew a black coat, and in college, in Nagpur, was sought by professors to stitch their suits.

Such illustrations for characters played by actors like Anupam Kher were presented to filmmakers