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The south Indian Tamil Cinema is often referred to as "Kollywood". Tamil Cinema industry is mainly located in Chennai, capital of Tamil. It's possible to observe several film studios and technicians in Kodambakkam a location situated in Chennai. The word Kodambakkam in addition to Hollywood were put together to create the name "Kollywood".
You will find three reputed film industries in India namely Bollywood, Kollywood and Tollywood. Even though, your budget of Tamil movies seems to be less when compared to Hindi movies, it's very famous and well experienced among Tamil speakers in our nation as well as other Asian countries. Recently, Tamil is becoming famous in Japan and Tamil films are being liked by those citizens. Since, other parts of India can't understand Tamil, some movies are dubbed into Hindi and handful of them have reached many were enjoyed by more audiences. One such movie is Bombay, directed by Maniratnam.
Tamil movies were only silent movies at first, that is, in 1916. After some time, may be around 1931, movies including dialogues and other sound effects were produced. Kalidas was the first movie in the period of talkies. Chennai was the central a part of different language movie industries including Kannada cinema, Telugu cinema, Hindi cinema as well as Sri Lankan Tamil cinema.
Politics and Tamil cinema are closely associated since 30 years. Reputable former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, C.N.Annadurai and the present chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.Karunanidhi were script writers and film directors before they entered politics. M.G. Ramachandran, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister would be a well experienced Tamil actor before he entered the politics.
In the present context, following would be the prominent actors of Tamil industry - Rajinikanth, Kamal Hassan, Surya, Vijay, Simbu, Vikram, Ajith, Vijayakanth, Sarathkumar and Vishal, While the renowned actresses are Nayanthara, Trisha, Tamannah, Shriya, Asin, Anushka, Priyamani, Sneha, Genelia and Sameera Reddy.
