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.}