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">https://twitter.com/Dalrymple...
Ahmad Shah Abdali usually wore a bejeweled crown like his predecessor Nadir Shah Afshar. https://twitter.com/DalrympleWill/status/839341572277825540">https://twitter.com/Dalrymple...
His grandson Zaman Shah Durrani also wore a bejeweled crown.
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Painting of Ahmad Shah Durrani of circa 1785-1790, Inscribed: & #39;Hamed Shah Duranny& #39;. 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">https://www.alamy.com/ahmad-sha...