Amitabh Bachhan, Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Dharamendra are popular heroes with the auto drivers. The film genre of vehicle graphics is mainly centered on hero worship, melodramatic and romantic narratives. The paintings are inspired by pre-nineties film industry. This is possibly because films for that period belong to the generation of the drivers and artists. The art is taught by the artist (whose name is suffixed with ‘Painter’), to a few children who learn their trade through apprenticeship.
The main décor is on the mudguards and inner side panel of the rickshaw.The painters make up to 30 pieces a day to keep up to the demand from customers. They sell their wares at local retail shops or from their own stall at the rate of Rs.80 per piece, approximately. This industry will eventually face the onslaught of the manufactured accessory industry.The artists hope to overcome and keep the tradition alive by teaching it to their children.

The Chhakda an indigenous vehicle form of public transport, is found
extensively in the Saurashtra belt. In the local dialect, the term stands
for a six-seater, but this is now a generic term used to describe many
hybrid vehicles that are in-between the size of a tempo and auto-rickshaw.
Most chakkdas are so decked that they look like small traveling circuses. These vehicles frequent the Gujarat highways. They look like stunning flashes of colours, or fantastic motor birds as they pass by through the vast expanses of countryside that provides a muted earthy background. One interesting point about chakkdas is that the manufacturer decoratesthem before they are sold.According to Bodhu Bhai, a chakkda manufacture in Rajkot, a vehicle is worth nothing if it cannot attract, if it does not have flamboyance, colour, and ornamentation. “No body will sit in it, it will never sell. It has got to look good.”

Till this day the cycle rickshaw has continued to be the most popular and eco-friendly means of road transport in Banaras. The rickshaws besides being a mode of transport are a work of art. Their shining steel form is branded with colorful motifs and decorated with tassels and bells. The bell is a special feature. It is made of a brass that produces a clear ringing sound when struck. This is probably one of the few cities in the world where a traffic jam can be pleasant to the ears. The orchestra of ringing bells at Gaudaulia Chowk is a regular feature in the evenings.The cityscape is a patchwork of quaint old temples, crumbling houses and a multitude of small shops tightly sewn together leaving lanes, like narrow seams between them. These lanes allow a traffic of people and cows to squeeze past each other. The rickshaws bounce along these bumpy lanes miraculously avoiding collision with street fixtures, streams of people and other rickshaws. What is striking is the astute navigational sense of the rickshaw drivers, which is quite typical of Banarasi way of life.