Tamil cinema, popularly known as Kollywood, is a part of Indian Cinema, engaged in production of motion pictures in Tamil language.
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12 Facts About Tamil cinema
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Tamil cinema later had a profound effect on other filmmaking industries of India, establishing Madras as a secondary hub for Hindi cinema, other South Indian film industries, as well as Sri Lankan cinema.
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Tamil cinema showed short movies in a tent in Esplanade, near the present Parry's Corner, using carbide jet-burners for projection.
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Tamil cinema bought the film projector and silent films from the Frenchman Du Pont and set up a business as film exhibitor.
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Tamil cinema soon added two more, Crown Theatre in Mint and Globe in Purasawalkam.
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Man who truly laid the foundations of south Indian cinema was A Narayanan.
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The Tamil cinema-language was the medium in which many plays and stories were written since the ages as early as the Cholas.
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Tamil cinema films have been dubbed into other languages, thus reaching a much wider audience.
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Tamil cinema films have been dubbed into other languages, thus reaching a much wider audience.
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Tamil cinema films enjoy significant patronage in neighbouring Indian states like Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and New Delhi.
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Tamil cinema films have enjoyed consistent popularity among populations in South East Asia.
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Tamil cinema films have been a part of films submitted by India for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language on eight occasions, next only to Hindi.
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