The story behind Sushant’s dhoti

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s ensemble in his upcoming film Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is hard to miss. Throughout the film, the actor will be seen sporting a dhoti paired with various shirts and kurtas. A lot of great Indians wore dhotis and did great things and Byomkesh Bakshy is one of them, says director Dibakar Bannerjee.

“The whole point of the Dhoti is that it was made for the Indian environment and some of the coolest people on the planet like Emperor Ashoka, Chandrashekhar Azad, Mahatma Gandhi and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy wore dhotis and did some of the coolest things that got them famous. Also only those who have worn a dhoti know how cool it can be in the physical sense too. I would recommend Dhoti to a cool Indian anytime,” he says.

Sushant also shares his insight of the Dhoti with us. “Dhoti , as an Indian traditional costume, contains, the very impression of Indianness, needful to project our national identity, before the entire world. byomkesh being the original indian detective reflects the very same essence...that’s why dhoti,” he says.