Madras Tamil or Madras bashai,'s a type of mixed language spoken in the city of Chennai, India (previously known as Madras). It's a loose polyglot blend of Tamil and English, with loanwords from Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Urdu. The term therefore's Tamil for Madras language After Madras Bashai became somewhat common in Madras, it became a source of satire for early Kollywood movies from the 1950s, in the form of puns and double entendres. Subsequent generations in Chennai identified… (More on Tanglish)