Kannada Cinema, colloquially referred to as
Chandanavana or the
Sandalwood, is a part of
Indian cinema, where motion pictures are produced in the
Kannada language. As of 2013, The Kannada film industry based in
Bengaluru,
Karnataka, produces more than 100 films each year. Although the industry's Gross Box-office is smaller, when compared to large market driven industries such as
Telugu cinema, and
Tamil cinema, Kannada films are released in a total of 950 single screen theatres in Karnataka and a handful of the movies are also released in the
United States,
Australia,
Germany, the
United Kingdom and other countries.