The Cinema of Karnataka, sometimes colloquially referred to as Sandalwood and as Chandanavana in Kannada. is a part of Indian cinema, where motion pictures are produced in the Indian state of Karnataka, and based in Bangalore. Today more than 100 films are made every year. With a total of 650 cinema theatres in Karnataka, a handful of the movies are also released in the United States, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries.
