Cholavaram, also spelled Sholavaram, is a suburb north of

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. It is popular as Sholavaram and is also known for the

Cholavaram lake Sholavaram Aeri, or Sholavaram Lake, is located in Ponneri taluk of Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the rain-fed reservoirs from where water is drawn for supply Chennai city from this lake to Puzhal lake through canals. ...

. Adjoining the lake, there was a defunct Air Force Airfield which was used as a

motor racing An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy. Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power gene ...

track. It was an air strip used during

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; After the Madras Motor Sports Club was formed in mid-50s, it selected Sholavaram to conduct its racing events. Since then racing events took place every year and continued till late 1980s until the Madras Motor Sports Club built a new track at

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. The Malayalam actor

Jayan Krishnan Madhavan Nair (25 July 1939 – 16 November 1980), better known by his stage name Jayan, born as the son of Madhavan Pillai (Kerala title), Pillai and Bharathiyamma in Kollam district, Kollam, was an Indian actor, Officer (armed forc ...

was killed in a helicopter accident here during the shooting of his film Kolilakkam on 16 November 1980.

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