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Tamil Cinema Movies

Tamil Cinema Movies is a film industry in India that is actually based in India, specifically in
Chennai. Chennai happens to be the capital city of Tamil Nadu in India. One particular part
in Chennai namely Kodambakkam is one haven for film studios and people whose lives are
all about the world of Tamil Cinema Movies. Tamil cinema movies are also termed as Tamil
cinema or Kollywood. Kollywood was interestingly formed by the combination of the words
Kodambakkam and Hollywood.

Kollywood is one of the three major movie industries in India. Bollywood and Tollywood are
also alongside Kollywood but what makes them different from each other is that they are
based in different cities and are of different languages. Bollywood films are based in Mumbai
and are in Hindi. Kollywood films are in Chennai and are in Tamil while Tollywood films are
in Telugu.

One of the common first impressions of Tamil cinema is that the films are a little low on the
budget and may need help in expanding it to be able to reach a wider audience but Tamil
cinema movies already have, in fact, it is popular among those who speak and understand
Tamil and in Sri Lanka. Kollywood films have also been distributed in Singapore, Malaysia
and other Asian countries too.

Tamil language has caught the interest of people in Japan and later on, Kollywood films will
also be drawing them in to watch these interesting films. Since not everyone can speak nor
understand the Tamil language, most of these Tamil cinema movies are being remade into
other Indian languages. Often times, Kollywood films are also dubbed also into other Indian
languages for the convenience of the audience and also be able to reach out to a wider set
of spectators. Popular Tamil cinema films that were dubbed are Sapnay and Bombay.

Ever since the early days of Tamil cinema, the movies that were done, for some reason,
have been associated with politics. As a matter of fact, C.N. Annadurai was a chief minister
and M. Karunanidhi who is present day a chief minister and both of them are also film
directors as well as script writers. Kollywood films were mostly inspired by traditional Tamil
ballads which is why this them is closely related to the movies’ wherein storylines, themes
and casts.

The world of Kollywood would not be complete without the big stars that have filled the
screens and have been fancied by the audience. Infamous actors of Tamil cinema are filled
with the names of Simbu, Sarathkumar, Vishal, Vijayakanth, Surya, Vikram, Ajith, Vijay,
Kamal Hassan and Rajinikanth. Well-known talented and beautiful Tamil cinema actresses
are Sameera Reddy, Genelia, Priyamani, Sneha, Anushka, Shriya, Nayanthara, Asin,
Trisha and Tamannah. Of course the talents of Ilaiyaraaja and A.R. Rahman complete the
industry with their musical scores. The music industry’s music studios have been visited
by international music composers where they have recorded their musical score for other
movie industries. Well known musical composers in Tamil cinema are Yuvan Shankar Raja,
Harris Jayaraj, Kathik Raja and Vidasagar.

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