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I don’t watch much TV in India. But when I do, I always see this commercial from HCL. I just hate this smug little IT guy. You get the feeling HCL is everywhere, but it’s not. If this was from Reliance, then that’s another story. Best part is he looks over to the helicopter and says “I’m going overseas for a life sciences project” but he doesn’t say OH-VER-SEAS he say OH-WERE-SEA’s, dude learn to say your V’s.

Michael Moore’s newest movie is called Sicko and will be released on June 29th. However, the movie is already on the BitTorrent network and I was able to download and watch it over the weekend. The movie is an expose into the American health care system and focuses it’s attention on people that HAVE health insurance and how broken the system is.

It talks about how the current system was created by the Nixon administration. On the secret audio tapes of Nixon that were released years ago you can hear Nixon talking to Edgar Kaiser (namesake of Kaiser Permanente) on what the role of managed care should be – make money for the providers.

The movie goes on to show how free universal health care works in other countries. They show a doctor in England’s NHS, that lives in a million dollar home, drives an Audi and makes around USD 200,000 – not bad for a government worker.

Sicko, as other movies from Michael Moore depicts how the government will say anything to get its ways, from lies about weapons of mass destruction to how bad free universal health care is.

BitTorrent link

If you didn’t hear about the uproar over this commercial then you would have zero clue as to what they are trying to sell until the last 3 seconds. Granted I love Paris, but my god if any chick ever got on top of my car and a Bentley Arnage no less, I would kick that chick to the curb so fast she wouldn’t know what to do. Don’t care how hot you are, keep your friggin’ paws off the car and eat your burger in a restaurant. Link to the Spicy BBQ website

Absolut has created “Mulit” a tongue-in-cheek branded content piece with ’70s Bollywood flair. “Mulit” is a musical love story about a man, a woman and an unfinished haircut that transcends class structures, fashion trends and bad hair. Without such roots, phrases like the ‘short-long’, ‘hockey hair’ and ‘work in front, party in back’ would be meaningless and ’80s rock would still be searching for a signature style.

click here for trailer clip (3.3mb, quicktime)
click here for the full blown Absolut “Mulit” website

Commercial debuted during the Superbowl. video clip (quicktime, 7.1mb)