![]() Tamil film industry established in Madras (now Chennai), then became a secondary hub for Hindi cinema, other South Indian film industries, as well as for Sri Lankan cinema. īy the end of the 1930s, the legislature of the State of Madras passed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939. The first Tamil talking feature film, Kalidas, a multilingual directed by H M Reddy was released on 31 October 1931, less than seven months after India's first talking motion picture Alam Ara. The first Tamil silent film, Keechaka Vadham, was directed by R. ![]() Based out of the Kodambakkam neighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, it is popularly called Kollywood - a portmanteau of the words Kodambakkam and Hollywood. Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood is a part of Indian Cinema primarily engaged in production of motion pictures in the Tamil language. For other uses, see Tamil cinema (disambiguation).
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