Tamil

Tamil cinema, also known as Colliwood, is the Indian film industry for Tamil cinema. It is based in Tamil Nadu, Chennai, in the Kodambakkam district , a portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood.  The first Tamil silent film, Keechaka Vadham, was directed by R. Nataraja Mudaliar in 1918.  The first talkie, Kalidas, is a multilingual film directed by HM Reddy and was released on October 31, 1931, less than seven months after India’s first talkie, Alam Ara.  In the late 1930s, the Madras State Legislature passed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939.