Not The Best!- An Animated Short On Bus-Rage


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Creator/Artist: Ashwin Dongre

Category: Animation Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2007-2009

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Nina Sabnani


Detailed Description

The BEST bus drivers start the bus without waiting for all the passengers to board or alight the bus. Thus the passengers either can't get on or off the bus or are forced to do that on a running bus, thus often falling down and getting hurt. Thus this movie is my statement against this erratic behaviour of the BEST bus drivers! In its most simplicity, the BEST bus drivers simply pull the bus away long before all the people are onboard or alighted. It is not necessary that they do it with only the last person; they do it with two, three, or more people waiting around the bus door to hop on. I’ve also seen them pulling away even as half the passenger’s line is still to board. The drivers are very impartial in their way. They don’t care if it is a man, or a woman, or an old person, or even the schoolchildren. They don’t care if the passengers have large bags in their hands. Oh, they do care if it is a woman carrying a child in her arm. But even in her case, they will pull the bus away as soon as she is on board, not caring to think about her situation, that she is holding the child in one hand and the bus in the other and doing all this while standing on the bottommost foothold of the stairs.