Your really making excuses for incredibly poor maratha tactics
If traditionally marathas survived on fast cavalry then taking and fighting behind 200 static canon was stupid
It was the maratha own actions, taxes and looting that isolated them from others, all of North India probably felt at least the Afghans would leave but we would be stuck with these marauding marathas, so they either backed Abdali or stayed put
Marathas even insulted one of their few rajput kings who supported them and he subsequently packed up and went home
The marathas didnt have enough patrols so whilst Abdali crossed the overflowing Yamuna and flanked the marathas cutting off their supply lines, they didn't even realise
They then had ego and retardation problems, even when the battle started that HARAMI ibrahim Gardi was having success on the afghan flank due to his superior gardi musketeers, the maratha cavalry charged forward putting themselves in the middle of the firing line
They put a idiot like Bhau in charge
AND WORSE
ALMOST CRIMINALLY INEPT from the marathas they came with TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND women and children, wives and daughters, dancing girls and cooks etc
So even if they could escape the afghans to fight another day, they couldn't leave their wives and children to be raped and enslaved
Thus concludes incredibly POOR maratha episode where they got tens of thousands of maratha men killed and hundreds of thousands of maratha women and children became slaves and concubines or wives of Afghan and Muslim armies
I dont understand how any Indian can make a movie about this unless its FULL OF BULLSHIT