Shell Advance presents “The Ride”

Title: {The Ride}

Duration: {02:51} minutes

Description:  

{It’s never too late to find out who you might have been.}

{The story of a rider out on a road trip of self-discovery.}

{The Ride}

[Crickets chirping]

{Shots of three bikes parked.}

[Music starts to play]

{Shots of Ladakh landscape and three bikers travelling through it.}

[Male Voice Over (M.V.O) starts]

{Close-up of rider}          

{M.V.O: I always wanted to ride.}

{Video Montagues}        

{Montages of three riders, riding through Ladakh.}                                

{M.V.O: even as a kid, I just wanted to pack my yellow bag and leave.

on the road. absolute freedom. just like the movies}                             

[Title Appears]

{Showing riders riding at dusk. And transitions into a beautiful river.}

[On the visuals, Text displays]

{shell advance presents
            The ride                }

{Video Montages}

{We follow the riders through Ladakh, seeing the sites they see
and the wildlife they meet.}

{One riders bike gets stuck; the others rush to help.}
{M.V.O: but life’s not a movie.}

{Shots of riders enjoying the ride, having fun together.}

{M.V.O: they say you have to grow up sometime.
get a real job. you can’t just live on riding.}

{Video montage of Riders breaking their journey
at a homestay. Before continuing the next day.}

{Shots of them meeting the local kids.
Taking photographs with them. Before riding on.}

{Shot of one of the riders at a stupa. As he stands,
taking in the beautiful landscape, he reaches to remove his helmet.}

{As he reveals his face, we realise he is a seventy-two-year-old man.
And that it is his thoughts we have been hearing.}

{M.V.O: well. it took me a while.
seventy-two years.
to stop listening to all the voices.}

{We see him pause, take a deep breath,

before cutting to him riding alongside a lake.}

{M.V.O: and to listen
what’s in my heart.}

{sound of the bike engine.}

{Flashback montage of their road trip so far.
This time we see the old man, unmasked
and enjoying himself with the other two younger riders.}

{Visual cuts of them planning their trip and getting their bikes ready
at a Shell Mechanics Shop.}

{Shot of the old man, getting ready to set off on his bike again}

{M.V.O: seems that it’s never too late}

{Shot of the old man, riding off, with the other two riders joining him.}

{M.V.O: to be whoever you wanted to be.}

{At sunset, one of the riders is sitting next to a helmet,
as the old man and the other rider walk in the distance.}

{Cut to close-up of the helmet on which is a sticker.}

{M.V.O: whatever your ride.}

{Next to the helmet, Shell Advance Motorcycle Oils logo appears.}

{M.V.O: conquer with Shell Advance Motorcycle Oils.}

{Text transition with Shell Advance Pac Shots}

[Text displays]

{#WhateverYourRide conquer with Shell Advance}

{Cut to Pectan}

{Pectan appears on screen.}