List of South Indian film families
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South Indian cinema, is the segment of Indian cinema. It refers to the cinema of the four major film industries in South India; primarily engaged in making feature films in the four major languages of the region, namely — Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. They are often colloquially referred to as Tollywood, Kollywood, Sandalwood and Mollywood, respectively. This article lists notable families in the South Indian cinema, who have been involved in a variety of professions related to the film rather than South Indian films, see List of Hindi film families.
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