Whats up with the weird headgear of Ahmad Shah Abdali in the upcoming movie?

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It appears to me the costume designers of the movie did a simple google-image search and found the following image of Ahmad Shah Abdali and mistook the turban for some thing else. Note it is not a historical painting of Ahmad Shah Abdali, it is modern, and the artist was trying .

to draw a striped traditional turban of Pashtuns.

Ahmad Shah Abdali usually wore a bejeweled crown like his predecessor Nadir Shah Afshar. https://twitter.com/DalrympleWill/status/839341572277825540

His grandson Zaman Shah Durrani also wore a bejeweled crown.

https://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/indian-himalayan-southeast-asian-art-n09478/lot.864.html

Painting of Ahmad Shah Durrani of circa 1785-1790, Inscribed: 'Hamed Shah Duranny'. https://www.alamy.com/ahmad-shah-durrani-amir-of-afghanistan-1747-73-oval-portrait-three-quarter-length-wearing-a-green-fur-trimmed-coat-over-a-red-dress-and-holding-an-axe-inscribed-hamed-shah-duranny-1785-1790-watercolour-source-addor2685-author-anon-image231242543.html

Painting of Ahmad Shah Abdali and his Grand Wazir Shah Wali Khan, ca.1760s. From an untitled album of Indian miniatures, Ms, Bodleian Library.

Also notice that his nose is not missing in any of these paintings and he is not wearing any metallic face mask like Robocop.