This paper, titled ―Feeding the Frame: Food, Culture and Class identity in Kollywood Narratives‖ examines how food functions as a dynamic cultural and socio-political signifier in contemporary Tamil cinema. Through a close textual analysis of selected films, the study explores how culinary practices articulate questions of identity, ritual continuity, caste hierarchy, class aspiration, and economic transformation within Tamil society. Food emerges as a marker of rooted cultural identity in rural settings, where cooking rituals and communal feasts preserve intergenerational traditions while simultaneously exposing ethical tensions and generational divides. The paper further analyzes how globalized food commodities symbolize urban aspiration and class mobility, revealing the cultural anxieties produced by consumer capitalism. Ritual meals associated with marriage and death are examined as performative spaces that reinforce social order, kinship structures, and communal memory. In agrarian narratives, food production and land ownership are shown to reflect caste-based power structures and structural inequality. Additionally, the study highlights the role of small-scale food enterprises and farming economies in representing labor dignity, market vulnerability, and shifting economic aspirations. By foregrounding food as both symbol and material resource, the paper argues that Kollywood uses culinary imagery to critically engage with broader discourses on culture, class, power, and economic change.