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FrameSouthSouth Indian Cinema, Year by Year.

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2025

894 verified releases across 4 industries

Other years

2026
2024

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Four cinemas, one year.

TollywoodTelugu Cinema184releases
KollywoodTamil Cinema255releases
MollywoodMalayalam Cinema216releases
SandalwoodKannada Cinema239releases

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A text-first record of South Indian cinema, year by year. It carries no posters, no stills and no photographs of anyone — by design, not by omission. Typography is the poster.

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Sources

Film data is drawn from Wikipedia’s curated year-by-language film lists and from Wikidata, through their public APIs. Wikipedia content is used under CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikidata is CC0. Every film page lists the sources it was built from.

Accuracy

Where a fact could not be verified, the field is empty rather than guessed. Counts shown anywhere in this archive are database counts.