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Tamil cinema (also referred to as the Cinema of Tamil Nadu, the Tamil cinema industry, or Chennai film industry) is the Chennai–based Tamil language film making industry of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is based in the Kodambakkam district of Chennai, where several Tamil language feature films are produced, which has led to a colloquial reference to it as Kollywood / Kollyworld (Tamil: கோலிவுட் kōlivūṭ), a portmanteau of the words Kodambakkam and Kollywood. Silent movies were produced in Chennai since 1916 and the era of talkies dawned in 1931 with the film Kalidas. By the end of the 1930s, the State of Madras legislature passed the Entertainment Tax Act 1939. Tamil Nadu cinema has had a profound effect on the film making industries of India, with Chennai becoming a hub for the film making industries of other languages and also Sri Lankan cinema in the 1900s. Tamil–language films are further made in other countries. Today, Tamil films are distributed to various theaters around the world such as in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia, Mauritius, South Africa, Western Europe, North America, and other significant Tamil diaspora regions.