- published: 08 Jul 2016
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The cinema of Tamil Nadu is a part of Indian cinema, producing films in the Tamil language. Based in the Kodambakkam district of Chennai, India, the industry is colloquially referred to as Kollywood, the term being a portmanteau of the words Kodambakkam and Hollywood.
The first silent film 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 Bollywood, other regional film industries in South India, as well as Sri Lankan cinema. In its modern era, Tamil films from Chennai have been distributed to various overseas theaters in Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Oceania, the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. The industry also inspired independent filmmaking in Tamil diaspora populations in Malaysia, Singapore, and the Western Hemisphere.
Can't see too many more
Can't see them anymore
Waving from afar
Can you come back soon
We wish we could
We think we've gone too far
On this ship of fools
We think we've gone too far
On this ship of fools
And now I walk ashore
Searching for my soul
Body sea and sky
Body sea and sky
Cast upon this sea
Is this ship of fools
Cast upon this sea
Is this ship of fools
They're all aboard
Except for me
Can we come back soon
We wish we could
We think we've gone too far
On this ship of fools
On this ship of fools
On this ship of fools
Now I walk the shore
Searching for my soul
Body sea and sky
I was born sea and sky
In this ship of fool
In this ship of fools
Cast upon this sea
Is this ship of fools
We think we've gone too far
We think we've gone too far
We think we've gone too far