Tamil Cinema also referred to as the Kollywood film industry is over 93 years old has its birth in the year of 1916 and it has got bigger and bigger with lot of new actors and actresses joining tamil film industry and also it has grown a lot in terms of technology and finance. The Kollywood film industry is one the biggest film industries in india apart from Bollywood and tollywood. The orgin of the word “Kollywood” is from the word Kodambakkam, a region in Chennai which laid the roots for tamil cinema along with the word “Hollywood” which was grouped together as “Kollywood”.
Silent movies were produced in Chennai since 1916 and the era of talkies dawned in 1931 with the film Kalidas. By the end of the 1930s, the State of Madras legislature passed the Entertainment Tax Act 1939. Tamil Nadu cinema has had a profound effect on the film making industries of India, with Chennai becoming a hub for the filmmaking industries of other languages, including Telugu cinema, Malayalam cinema, Kannada cinema, Hindi cinema, Sinhalese cinema and Sri Lankan Tamil cinema in the 1900s. Tamil–language films are further made in other countries. Today, Tamil films are distributed to various overseas theatres in South Asia, including Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia; East Asia, including Japan and South Korea; as well as Oceania, Southern Africa, Western Europe, North America, and other significant Tamil diaspora regions.
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