The book NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN TAMIL FILMS: 1920s-2009 is written by Dr.M.Neelamalar, Asst Prof, Anna University, Chennai, India. Tamil cinema occupies a prominent position in the annals of Indian cinema. The reach of Tamil films extends beyond Tamil Nadu and India. They find their market wherever the Tamil Diaspora exists. So much so, ‘worldwide release of Tamil films’ has become the norm of the day! Nationalism is a very strong sentiment and co-incidentally Indian films too thrive on sentiments of various hues. Films in various languages of India have featured nationalistic sentiments right from the very early stages. The Indian film makers of pre-independence era strived a lot to create a nationalistic wave in colonial India. Indeed, some of them waged a war for independence through celluloid. And Tamil film makers are not an exception to this trend.
The book documents the nationalism and national integration in Tamil films from the earlier days of the Indian cinema till the recent decade.