Vijay Sethupathi — The collar left open at the chest, and the tonal buttons down the front — The collar left open at the chest, and the tonal buttons down the front · Still from the “Tasakku Tasakku” video, Vikram Vedha (2017)

In profile — the soft, unpressed cotton and how loosely the shoulder sits · Still from the “Tasakku Tasakku” video, Vikram Vedha (2017)

Vijay Sethupathi — Arms up: the sleeve pushed to the elbow, and the right chest flap pocket — Arms up: the sleeve pushed to the elbow, and the right chest flap pocket · Still from the “Tasakku Tasakku” video, Vikram Vedha (2017)

Vijay Sethupathi — From behind — how far off the body the shirt actually hangs — From behind — how far off the body the shirt actually hangs · Still from the “Tasakku Tasakku” video, Vikram Vedha (2017)

Vikram Vedha · 2017 1 piece

The Tasakku Tasakku rose-maroon shirt

One deep rose-maroon utility shirt, two flap pockets, worn open — and nothing else the song will show you

Worn byVijay Sethupathi
FilmVikram Vedha (2017)
DirectorPushkar–Gayathri
SceneVedha, in the bar through the “Tasakku Tasakku” number

Vedha spends the whole of "Tasakku Tasakku" in one shirt, and it is the only thing in the number worth copying — which is lucky, because it is also the only garment the song ever lets you see.

It is a deep rose-maroon, somewhere between raspberry and wine, in a soft cotton that has clearly been worn and washed a lot. It creases across the middle whenever he moves and it never once looks pressed. Long sleeves, pushed up to the elbow and left there. A plain spread collar, no button-down, with three or four buttons open at the chest and the shirt worn loose and untucked over everything.

The detail that makes it findable is the pockets. There are two of them, one on each side of the chest, both proper patch pockets with buttoned flaps — the shirt is a utility cut, not a plain casual one. The buttons all the way down the front are tonal, the same colour as the cloth, so the front reads as one unbroken field of colour with the two flaps sitting on it.

One caveat about that colour, stated plainly: the bar is lit almost entirely in warm amber and there is red on the walls. Across the number the shirt swings between a bright rose-pink in the brighter shots and a deeper maroon in the darker ones. The colour above was taken from the frames where a neutral reference — a khaki shirt, a white vest — is in the same light, but a shirt this saturated under lighting this warm is genuinely hard to pin to one swatch, and you should expect the real garment to sit somewhere in that range.

Everything below the waist is missing from the list below, and not by accident. This is a packed bar, shot mostly at chest height in a crowd, and there is no frame in the entire song where Vedha's trousers, belt or footwear resolve. He is also not wearing a gold chain here — the gold you can see belongs to the older man dancing beside him. So this look is one garment, listed as one garment.

The piece below is a lookalike, not the original. This costume was made for the film and was never sold; the entry notes where it differs from what is on screen.

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