Film in Malayalam

Film as a movie is സിനിമ (sinima), said si-ni-ma, the word Malayalis use in conversation, reviews and posters alike. It covers both the individual film and cinema as an art form. Photographic film is a different borrowing, philim.

Most common translation

സിനിമ (sinima)

Film, a movie shown in a cinema or on television; photographic film is called philim; movie, a film, a motion picture.

ഞങ്ങൾ ഇന്ന് ഒരു സിനിമ കണ്ടു.

njangal innu oru sinima kandu.

We watched a film today.

All Malayalam words for “film”

സിനിമ (sinima) is the film itself, ചലച്ചിത്രോത്സവം (chalachithrolsavam) is a film festival, താരം (thaaram) a film star, and കഥാപാത്രങ്ങൾ (kathaapaathrangal) the characters in it.

Common questions

How do you say film in Malayalam?

Say സിനിമ (sinima).

How do you say film festival?

That is ചലച്ചിത്രോത്സവം (chalachithrolsavam).