Thursday, January 18, 2007

Cinema (Part 1)

Tamil Nadu is the birth place of cinema and from here films in all four regional languages, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, were made in the past. Over the years, cinema became the most prevalent entertainment in the rural areas of Tamil Nadu. One can go even without a dinner but not a cinema show run in those “touring talkies” as they were called. They were present everywhere in the village side and the maximum number of cinema theatres in the country were in this State. Even when there were other forms of entertainment, cinema occupies a special place in the life of people in Tamil Nadu. People took the events in movies so seriously and they believed them to be true real life stuff. Thus one will not dismiss filmy events like dressing by young heroes and heroines. New fashions in dresses will be set in motion by new movies and the dress will become the fashion for the day until a new dress fashion is introduced by a new movie. Heroes in cinema became demigods.
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