Kannada cinema

 Kannada cinema, also known as Chandan, Kannada film industry or Chandanvan, is a section of Indian cinema devoted to the production of films in the Kannada language, widely spoken in the state of Karnataka. The 1934 Sati Sulochana, directed by Y V Rao, was the first spoken language film in Kannada. It was also the first film starring Subbaiah Naidu and Tripuramba, and the first motion picture screened in the then Kingdom of Mysore. The film was produced by Chamanlal Dungaji, who founded South India Movietone in Bangalore in 1932.

Adapted for the Kannada screen such as Biwi Karanth's Chomana Dudi (1975), Girish Karnad's Kaadu (1973), Pattabhiram Reddy's Sanskar (1970) (based on a novel by UR Ananthamurthy), which won the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and TS Nagabharan's Mysore Mallige (based on the works of the acclaimed poet KS Narasimhaswamy).

Kannada cinema is known for producing experimental works such as Girish Kasaravalli's Ghatashraddha (1977), which won the Ducats Award at the Manneham Film Festival Germany, Dweep (2002), which won Best Film at the Moscow International Film Festival, Singetam Srinivasa Rao's Silent film Pushka. Vimana (1987), screened at the Cannes Film Festival and Prashanth Neel's historical drama, KGF: Chapter (2018), became the first Kannada language film to gross ₹250 crore worldwide at the box office.