Tamil cinema is the Indian
film industry based in
Chennai,
Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of
feature films in the
Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's
Kodambakkam area, where several
South Indian film production companies are headquartered. With reference to this, the industry is also colloquially referred to as
Kollywood, a
portmanteau of Kodambakkam and
Hollywood. Tamil cinema is India's third largest film industry in terms of films produced, as per the
Central Board of Film Certification report of 2011, with high revenues and worldwide distribution, having audiences mainly including people from the four southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu,
Kerala,
Andhra Pradesh, and
Karnataka, placing the industry among the largest in the world.
Silent films were produced in Chennai since 1917 and the era of
talkies dawned in 1931 with the film
Kalidas.
By the end of the 1930s, the
legislature of the
State of Madraspassed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939. Tamil cinema later had a profound effect on other
filmmaking industries of India, establishing Chennai as a secondary hub for
Telugu cinema,
Malayalam cinema,
Kannada cinema, and
Hindi cinema. In its modern era, Tamil films from Chennai have been distributed to various overseas theatres in
Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Oceania, the
Middle East,
Western Europe, and
North America. The industry also inspired filmmaking in
Tamil diaspora populations in other regions, such as in Europe and Canada.
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