It is located just outside the Chennai Beach railway station, in the old financial district of the city at George Town.
Burma Bazaar was established by Burmese immigrants, who were Tamil refugees who fled Myanmar during the early 1960s.
The bazaar is run by the Burma Tamizhar Marumalarchi Sangam, an association that has been set up to look after the interests of the traders since 1966.
[4] It had been listed as a notorious market between 2009 and 2017 by the USTR for selling various counterfeit goods and pirated media and software.
[5][6][7][8] Ayan, a 2009 Indian film, shows the operations of selling CDs, software, electronics, perfumes, and other goods in great detail.