Wow Podcast with Kausty Ft NAFEES KHAN | Episode 6
Why India’s trucks are so colorful? Meet Nafees Ahmed Khan the KING of Truck Art.Truck painting is a popular form of indigenous art in INDIA and other South Asian countries, featuring floral patterns and poetic calligraphy. Many trucks and buses are highly customized and decorated by their owners. External truck decoration can cost from ****. The decoration often contains elements that remind the truck drivers of home, since they can be away from home for two months. Decoration may include structural changes, paintings, calligraphy, and ornamental decors like mirror work on the front and back of vehicles and wooden carvings on the truck doors. Depictions of various historical scenes and poetic verses are also common. Outfitting is often completed at a coach workshop. Chains and pendants often dangle off the front bumper.Nafees Ahmad Khan, a truck artist from Indore, a city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
