Tamil Movies 2016 and 2017 New (Tamil Cinema) Next to Bollywood, Tamil Cinema or Kollywood is leading film industry in India which produces huge number of Tamil movies per year. The term Kollywood comes from the combination of “Kodambakkam” and “Hollywood” where Kodambakkam is a famous film area in Chennai, Tamil nadu. Also, nowadays, Tamil movies are gaining lot more attention from the world fans because of its upgraded style of making movies, strong story plots and excellent background music that has turned everybody’s attention towards this industry. Also, Tamil movies are one of the best movies which have huge fan followers irrespective of their language, culture and traditions. History of Tamil Cinema: Tamil Cinema has released its first fully featured silent film in the year 1916. Following that, in 1930, Tamil Cinema started to release its other featured films which reached many audience in India and thus it gave a profound platform in the Indian film industry. At the end of 1930, Entertainment Tax Act was passed by the State of Madras which made Tamil Cinema as one of the most important film industries with Chennai as its main hub for Tamil movie productions. Tamil movies between the years 1950 to 1970 had featured varieties of story plots such as family sentiments, Tamil culture, arts, music and comedy through its popular star valued persons such as M.G.Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. Also, Tamil Cinema served as a perfect medium for the actors like M.G.Ramachandran and J.Jayalalitha to enter into Indian politics. In other words, these actors gained a strong foothold in to Indian politics though the Tamil film industry and were able to establish their political ideologies very successfully. Later, Tamil Cinema after 1970 till now has changed lot more and it started to produce variety of subjects to entertain the Tamil audience and also other audiences all over the world. Importance of Tamil Cinema: Tamil Cinema served as a best platform for most of the talented persons who belonged to different fields such as music, art, writing, dance, singing, acting and so on. Most of the Tamil scholars, Tamil writers and carnatic singers were able to establish their talents with the help of this Tamil Cinema. Also, it served as a best platform to spread intellectual thoughts and share useful and right kind of messages to huge number of audience.