Kollywood

Kollywood is a name often applied to Tamil Cinema, based in Chennai (formerly Madras) in the state of Tamil Nadu in south India. The name is a conflation of Kodambakkam and Hollywood. Kodambakkam is an area in Chennai, in and around which there is a high concentration of film studios, and where many people involved with Tamil cinema live.

Personalities

Actors

This is just a list of a few prominent actors in Kollywood.

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• 'Puratchi Thalaivar' MG Ramachandran (MGR)
• 'Nadigar Thilakam' Sivaji Ganesan
• 'Kaadhal Mannan'Gemini Ganesan
• 'Superstar' Rajinikanth
• 'Sakalakalaa Vallavan' Kamal Haasan
• 'Illaya Thalapathy' Vijay
• 'Chiyaan' Vikram
• Surya
• Ajith
• R. Madhavan

Actresses

• Manorama
• Savithri
• Padmini
• Saroja Devi
• Vyjayanthimala
• Sri Vidya
• Sujatha
• Sridevi
• Saritha
• Radhika
• Revathi
• Ambika
• Radha
• Kushboo
• Jyothika, nicknamed Jo.
• Trisha or Trish
• Simran_(actress)
• Meera Jasmine

Comedians

• Chandra Babu
• Nagesh
• Vivek
• Vadivelu
• Senthil
• Goundamani

Directors

• K. Balachandar
• Mani Rathnam
• Shankar
• Kamal Haasan
• Balu Mahendra
• Bharathiraja
• Bhagiyaraj
• Bala
• Ameer
• Mahendran
• Manivannan
• Selvaraghavan
• Santosh Sivan

Music directors

• 'Tirai Isai Tilagam' K. V. Mahadevan
• 'Mellisai Mannar' Viswanathan & Ramamurty
• 'Isaignani' Ilayaraja
• A. R. Rahman
• Harris Jeyaraj (worked under A.R.Rahman)
• Yuvan Shankar Raja (Second Son of Maestro Ilayaraja)
• Bharadwaj