Ladies Tailor

{{Infobox film

| name = Ladies Tailor

| image = Ladies Tailor.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Vamsy

| producer = K. Sarada Devi
Sravanthi Ravi Kishore {{small|(presents)}}

| writer = Tanikella Bharani {{small|(dialogues)}}

| story = Vamsy

| screenplay = Vamsy
Tanikella Bharani
Vemuri Satyanarayana

| starring = Rajendra Prasad
Archana

| music = Ilaiyaraaja

| cinematography = Hari Anumolu

| editing = Anil Malnad

| studio = Sri Sravanthi Movies

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1986|12|04}}

| runtime = 154 mins

| country = India

| language = Telugu

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Ladies Tailor is a 1986 Indian Telugu-language comedy film, produced by K. Sarada Devi under the Sri Sravanthi Movies banner, presented by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore and written and directed by Vamsy. It stars Rajendra Prasad and Archana, with music composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

The film was dubbed into Tamil under the same name. The movie was remade in Marathi as Kuthe Kuthe Shodu Mi Tila (1990) and in Hindi in 2006 with the same name as the original.

Plot

The film begins in a village where a proficient ladies' tailor, Sundaram, is a slacker & strong proponent of a fluke that molds him into affluent. He turns a deaf ear to his disciple Sitaramudu, and friend, Battala Satyam, a cloth vendor, urging him to work. Once, a Koyadora prophecies that Sundaram has kingship by knitting a lady luck possessing a mole on her right thigh. He shares it with his mates, but they are terrified of the chieftain Venkata Ratnam, who will abide by any roguery on women. He is under penalty, so they decide to prevail before his arrival by watching out for his confidant, Seenu. Sundaram starts his task with big business by stitching a blouse for unstable Venkataratnam's sibling Sundari, who roams across. He alleges three girls, Nagamani, Neelaveni, & Daiya, flirting with them and oaths to espouse. Constantly, he makes trials to extract the real one when Seenu senses from his acts. Due to lack of time, Sundaram wittily chases the puzzle and collapses absence at the trio. Thus, he plans to flee but fortuitously spots the mole on a newly deployed school teacher, Sujatha.

Meanwhile, Venkata Ratnam acquits Sundaram's buddies to handle Seenu with the bribe. Sundaram reboots his play with Sujatha but truly loves her, and she, too, reciprocates. However, the trio clusters him by fixing their alliance. Parallelly, Sujatha is forwarding to training, so he affirms to walk out with her. Here, as a flabbergast, Sundari conceives when everyone accuses Sundaram, and villagers & trio surround him. On the verge of Venkata Ratnam slaying him, Sujatha breaks the actual killer as Sitaramudu. Then, Venkata Ratnam turns his rage, which Sujatha subdues. She also detests Sundaram's idiocy for his betrayal of women. Sundaram dies out of remorse, pleads pardon, and opts to quit. At last, Sujatha bars him, and they wedlock. Finally, the movie ends comically, with Sundaram discerning the girl with a mole as Sundari.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

Rajendra Prasad as Sundaram
Archana as Sujatha
Rallapalli as Koyadora (soothsayer)
Tanikella Bharani as Police
Mallikarjuna Rao as Battala Satyam
Subhalekha Sudhakar as Sitaramudu
Pradeep Shakthi as Venkataratnam
Karun as Srinivas
Dham as Photographer Jembulingam
Deepa as Daiya
Sandhya as Neelaveni
Y. Vijaya as Nagamani
Prudhviraj

}}

Production

= Development =

Sravanthi Ravi Kishore along with his friends Thammudu Satyam and Vemuri Satyanarayana together formed a production company Sravanthi Film Arts. Ladies Tailor became company's first project.{{Cite web |title='Sravanthi' Ravi Kishore - Interview |url=http://www.telugucinema.com/c/publish/stars/sravanthiravikishore_interview.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407064546/http://www.telugucinema.com/c/publish/stars/sravanthiravikishore_interview.php |archive-date=7 April 2014 |access-date=12 January 2023 |website=Telugucinema.com |page=1 }}

= Casting and filming =

Archana whom initially auditioned for Vamsy's previous film Sitara was chosen as one of the lead actresses alongside Sandhya from Guntur and Deepa. For Tanikella Bharani's role, Vamsy's initial choice was Nutan Prasad however due to date issues, Bharani did the role instead.{{Cite web |last=Sri |date=3 December 2011 |title=Retrospect: Ladies Tailor (1986) |url=http://www.telugucinema.com/c/publish/movieretrospect/retro_ladiestailor1986.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107053050/http://www.telugucinema.com/c/publish/movieretrospect/retro_ladiestailor1986.php |archive-date=7 January 2012 |access-date=12 January 2023 |website=Telugucinema.com |page=1}} The film was mostly shot in and around Rajolu, Thatipaka, and Manepalli of West Godavari district.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja and all lyrics were written by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry.{{cite web | url = https://open.spotify.com/album/48IvNoMLzGScFAFVIdU8r3 | website = Spotify | title = Ladies Tailor | access-date = 19 February 2021}}{{cite web | url = https://indiancine.ma/AAZT/info | website = indiancine.ma | title = Ladies Tailor | access-date = 11 January 2022 | archive-date = 11 January 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220111091117/https://indiancine.ma/AAZT/info | url-status = live}} Songs were released through ECHO music label. The song "Ekkada Ekkada" was composed and recorded after it was picturised as opposed to the usual norm of shooting after the song got recorded.

{{tracklist

| headline = Track listing

| extra_column = Singer(s)

| total_length = 22:46

| title1 = Porapatidhi

| extra1 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki, Rajendra Prasad

| length1 = 4:02

| title2 = Gopilola

| extra2 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. P. Sailaja

| length2 = 4:22

| title3 = Hayamma Hayamma

| extra3 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki