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Tamil cinema is a film industry based in Chennai, India, which produces feature films in the Tamil language. Most of the movie studios are located in Kodambakkam, also referred to as Kollywood, a portmanteau of Hollywood and Kodambakkam. Moving pictures have been exhibited in Chennai from 1882 onwards. The first silent movie in Tamil, Keechaka Vadham was made by R. Nataraja Mudaliar in 1916. The first talkie was a multi-lingual Kalidas which released on 31 October 1931, barely 7 months after India's first talking picture Alam Ara[ By the end of the 1930s, the legislature of the State of Madras passed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939. Tamil cinema later had a profound effect on other filmmaking industries of India, establishing Chennai as a secondary hub for Telugu cinema, Malayalam cinema, Kannada cinema, and Hindi cinema. In its modern era, Tamil films from Chennai have been distributed to various overseas theatres in Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Oceania, the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.[5] The industry also inspired filmmaking in Tamil diaspora populations in other regions, such as in Europe and Canada. ''Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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'Kollywood'' / photography © Abul Kalam Azad / pigment prints 2014
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