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'One cab driver in India once read in a book
that there's no caste system in India anymore'
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'The Cab Driver Who Knew It All' an Indian folk tale
'Like, it was cancelled back in '49.
And after that, everyone in India was equal, and now each Indian even has human rights.
Well, like it was important, you know,
there are all kinds of things written in their books.
But that driver, not only he accepted this ***,
he drew some global conclusions from it too.
So he went to propose to the brahmin's daughter.
The brahmin, being polite but tough, gave the guy a cold shoulder,
asking the cab driver some tricky questions,
like 'who's your father?', 'who's your grandfather?', 'who's your great-grandfather?',
'what's your education level?', 'what's your yearly income?' and so on
The cab driver went bonkers, cussed at the brahmin and ran away.
But he didn't abandon his plan.
In a month,
the cab driver went to the brahmin's house with a rug and a wooden sign.
He set his wooden sign under the tree and sat there himself
for a day,
and another one,
and yet another one.
On the day four, the brahmin went curious about what's written on that sign of his.
And the sign goes, like,
'I won't leave this place and I won't eat a single crumb
until so-and-so won't marry his daughter to me'.
And the sign is, mind you, written in two languages,
Hindu and English.
The week passes,
the cab driver is sitting there,
two more weeks pass,
all media goes nuts in regard to a poor hunger striker,
the guy even goes on TV.
What should the brahmin do?
The retard dies from hunger,
the brahmin will have to move, as people sure won't forget.
Well, seems the only way is to marry the girl to the cab driver
but for her, marrying a commoner is equal to drowning herself in the crapper.
So she went to Durga's temple,
performed a pooja
and asked Durga for a favour in a very convincing way.
"Save me, Durga," she begged,
"don't let my young life be wasted"!
Durga heard her
and lent her a hand,
which happened on the very next morning.
The cab driver was lying under his tree
dreaming of brahmin's daughter
when he saw this most disgusting *** hag approaching him.
Had an awful napper and stinky as a crapper she was, I'm telling you.
And she goes on,
'Hey, you, young lad,
do you mind marrying me?'
Then, she takes a seat under the same tree
and sets a wooden sign which says,
"I won't leave this place and I won't eat or drink
until so-and-so cab driver won't marry me"
in five languages:
English, Hindu, Tamil, Urdu and Sanskrit.
The cab driver looked at her,
and she sat there and just won't stir,
like she was cut from stone or something.
And he had this feeling that the old hag would outstay him,
and would attract the entire society's attention,
and in the end would probably get what she wants.
So he folded his rug,
threw his banner into the bushes,
and left the city the same day.
The old hag sat under the tree until the very evening,
to the joy of media and citizens,
and at sunset, when people started to leave,
she blazed up in orange flames,
cloaked in white smoke,
and turned into the bronze statue of the eight-handed goddess.
This is where everybody understood what happened,
while somebody guessed it at the very beginning.'
The Cab Driver Who Knew It All an Indian folk tale
Written and narrated by Dmitry Hajduk
Direction and animation by Fill
Characters by Stasik Kanevsky
Music by Vadim 'Shramm' Nekrasov
Sound editing by Yura YG, Vadim Nekrasov
Foley effects by Vadim Nekrasov
Edited by Irina Dobrynina
Technical director Anton Samsonov
Executive producer Vasiliy Chagin
Producers Victor Gekimyantz Sergey Khalansky Alexey Timatkov
A film by 420 Animation Studio 2011