Kollywood

Tamil Cinema is popularly called as Kollywood- derived from Kodambakkam + Hollywood. Kodambakkam is a locality in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India in and around which are the maximum concentration of film studios, and consequently also homes of people in the cine field.

Tamil Cinema is famous for talented artistes like Sivaji Ganesan, Mani Rathnam, Kamal Hassan, Ilayaraja, A.R. Rahman.

See also: Bollywood.