SRK Buy New CPL Team In West

         Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan. Hollywood stars Mark Wahlberg and Gerard Butler already own CPL franchises. Wahlberg owns reigning champions Barbados Tridents, led by Kieron Pollard, while Butler owns Jamaica Tallawahs, captained by Chris Gayle.

          Khan's company Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd - along with KKR co-owners Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta - has invested in the T&T franchise. The next edition of the tournament is scheduled to run from June 20 to July 26. Khan is the first owner of an Indian Premier League team to own an overseas cricket franchise. He told us: "This is in line with our vision to expand globally. We are thrilled to become part of the cricketing tradition of Trinidad & Tobago. The passion for franchise cricket in the Caribbean is evident with the success of CPL and we hope to bring all the best practices of KKR to the T&T franchise."

           KKR, IPL champions in 2012 and 2014, have been ranked the most valuable IPL team with a brand value of $86 million (over Rs 500 crore).

KKR's chief executive Venky Mysore, who runs Khan's sports business, added, "KKR has been fortunate to be recognized as one of the most professionally managed franchises in IPL. That experience has encouraged us to expand globally. The idea is to replicate our success in CPL, keeping the growing interest in this (T20) format in mind."

              Trinidad & Tobago has a population of about 1.3 million, with people of Indian origin comprising almost 38%, making them the single largest ethnic group. KKR's investment strategists are hoping that their star owner will draw in the crowds when the team plays its home matches at the historic Queen's Park Oval between July 14 and 19.

              The islands are also an hour's light away from Miami, which could help T&T draw members of the Indian diaspora for their matches. If Khan's attempt to tap the Indian expat audience turns out to be successul, "the game will move entirely to a new level," said Mysore.

               T&T's stars include Dwayne Bravo (who was the highest wicket-taker in this year's IPL, playing for Chennai Super Kings), Darren Bravo, Samuel Badree and Kevon Cooper. Overseas signings include Kamran Akmal and Johan Botha. Former South Africa and KKR allrounder Jacques Kallis, who is now the IPL team's mentor, will also be a part of the T&T franchise this year.

Following Khan's investment, the CPL may seek ways to connect with India. The Indian diaspora in the west is a huge fan-base which Indian cricket is yet to explore as far as in-stadia action is concerned.

Here's a brief look at the new owners and the Caribbean Premier League...

Owners of new T&T team: Shahrukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, actor Juhi Chawla and husband Jay Mehta 

Other celebrity owners in CPL: Hollywood actors Mark Wahlberg and Gerard Butler.

Star players in the T&T franchise: Dwayne Bravo, Jacques Kallis, Darren Bravo, Johan Botha, Kamran Akmal and Kevon Cooper among others.

Other franchises in CPL: Antigua Hawksbills, Barbados Tridents, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Jamaica Tallawahs, St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, St Lucia Zouks, T&T (to be now owned by Khan).

No. of CPL editions so far: 2013 & 2014. 2015 begins later this month.

Top cricketers from T&T: Brian Lara, Dwayne Bravo, Learie Constantine, Gus Logie, Ravi Rampaul, Lendl Simmons, Sunil Narine and Kieron Pollard

How To Make A Great Funny Movie Villains
 by: prasanta kundu

They're wicked and foul with the stench of 40,000 years. But what would movies be without them? While most are truly quite horrific, others are actually funny. But throughout the many years of cinematic history, one fact has always remained constant about movie villains... we love to hate them.

Heroes get all the hype, but deep down, we all love a good villain. I can take or leave the square-jawed boy scout, the do-gooder who gets the girl and saves the day; but the villain is a different kettle of genetically modified laser wielding fish altogether.

Funny Villain have more fun and get most of the best lines. Movie history is littered with fiendish foes, evil overlords and malevolent masterminds we loved to hate. The summer blockbuster is the perfect breeding ground for evildoers and this year�s pageant of box office behemoths provides rich pickings, from robots out for revenge to muggle-hating wizards.

Cinema is filled with memorable villains. Whether it's the sardonic cheer of Gert Fr�be's Auric Goldfinger, or the sneering oiliness of Die Hard's Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), the movies are full of superb, loveably evil performances. The hero may get the girl and save the world in most instances, but it's the villain who gets most of the quotable lines.

It's like the alignment of the planets. Occasionally, a great director, an exemplary script and a gifted actor will join together on the same project, creating the kind of unsettling performances that linger in the memory for years afterwards.

Michael Mann's 1986 adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon was the first movie to bring cannibalistic academic Dr. Hannibal Lecter (in this instance spelled Lecktor due to rights issues) to the big screen.

Robert De Niro chews both characters and scenery in a manic performance as Max Cady, an ex-convict who terrorises lawyer Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) for apparently failing to defend him effectively in court fourteen years earlier.

An indifferent and Funny movie villains can be threatening as a villain with an almost cartoon-like evil uniform like Jason Vorhees from Friday the 13th. In The Matrix (1999), the army of 'faceless' agents are cold and emotionless and suggest an unbeatable threat with which the hero cannot reason or negotiate.

The all-powerful emotionless villain is portrayed excellently in the X-Files TV series by William B. Davis as the Cigarette Smoking Man. Throughout the series he is constantly in control of the heroes and any attempts to kill him are deemed self-destructive or futile. His power over the protagonists' behaviour is linked to his role in the Syndicate, a mysterious organisation who seemingly are more powerful than the U.S. government.

On the opposite end of the scale are the villains that are emotive, excitable and with exaggerated personas as demonstrated by Heath Ledger's villain in the most-recent Batman film, The Joker. The latest incarnation of the Clown Prince of Crime perfectly conveys his lack of empathy and almost-humorous contempt for human life. The most prominent aspect of The Joker is his colourful clothing and unusual physical appearance, with white face make-up, dyed green hair and smudged red lipstick.