Video: Famous Pakistani trucks. Masterpieces on wheels
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
No matter how fashionable, stylish and exclusive the cars decorated with airbrushing may look, compared to the Pakistani giant trucks, they will still seem banal pop. In Pakistan, and some other countries in South Asia, people practice a whole cult of long-range trucks. So, there is a whole artel of artists that specializes in decorating these cars, and the driver of such a vehicle cares for and cherishes his multi-ton "baby", as if he loves her more than his own wife.
The truck in Pakistan is considered the king of the roads. I don’t know if you have ever witnessed this spectacle, but I can definitely judge the fantastic appearance of these stunning machines only from photographs and eyewitness accounts of researchers of unusual art. So, one of the researchers, photographer and traveler Jamal Elias, spent enough time studying the phenomenon of Pakistani trucks. It turns out that this phenomenon is based on aesthetics and love for the fine arts, and symbolism, philosophy and even religion.
So, the main plots that appear on Pakistani long-range fighters are considered romantic rural landscapes (homesickness) and beautiful women (longing for loved ones), patriotic symbols and political leaders, fetish objects such as horns and tails of cows, as well as religious images and symbols such as the heavenly horses Buraq, on which, according to legend, the Prophet Muhammad went on his spiritual journey. However, today the most common religious symbols are images of prophets, who are usually painted in the upper right corner of the front of the car.
In addition to symbolic painting, trucks are decorated with embossing, bows, decorated paintings, mosaics, appliqués and various inscriptions in Urdu, Arabic or English. It often takes up to 5 thousand dollars to decorate a car, but this is by the most conservative estimates. There is even a kind of "fashion" for certain "decorations" for a "palace on wheels" By the way, truck drivers are proud of their transport, and therefore very jealous if they notice that a colleague has richer decor, or his truck attracts more attention of passers-by. And here it should be noted that there are no two identical machines - each of them is unique in its own way.
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