Kodambakkam (also known as K-Town[1] or Kollywood) is a business and residential neighbourhood in Central Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

It is believed that the name "Kodambakkam" itself might have been derived from the Urdu word Ghoda Bagh meaning "garden of horses".

During the period of the Pallavas and the Later Cholas, the western part of Kodambakkam formed a portion of the historically important temple town of Vadapalani.

Present-day Kodambakkam originated in the 17th and 18th centuries CE, when it supposedly served as source for the horses of the stable of the Nawab of the Carnatic.

Under the British, Kodambakkam was administered as a municipality in Chingleput district till the draining of the Long Tank in 1921, when Kodambakkam was incorporated into the Madras city and formed the Kodambakkam-Saligrammam-Puliyur district of Greater Madras along with other localities to the west of the now extinct Long Tank, with a population of 497 people in 1939.

The district is also home to the Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, which is affiliated to Anna University.

One of the oldest mosque in Chennai named Puliyur Juma Masjid is situated here.

Residences of many film and television stars are located in and around Kodambakkam due to proximity to the movie studios.