{{Short description|Music genre}} {{More sources needed|date=September 2024}} {{About||the 1987 Malayalam film|Kilippattu (film)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}} '''Kilippattu ''' or ''parrot song'' is a genre of Malayalam poems<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kilippattu - Malayalam Albums |url=https://www.jiosaavn.com/song/kilippattu/GAsnXTBKbn4 |website=JioSaavn}}</ref> in which the narrator is a parrot, a bee, a swan, and so on. Kiḷippaṭṭu was popularized by the 16th-century poet Ezhuthachan (The Father Of The Malayalam language).
In Adhyathmaramayanam (work of Ezhuthachan), each chapter begins by calling the parrot and asking it to tell the story of Rama. {{Verse translation| {{lang|ml-Latn|Harmakalkku anbulla thathe, varikedo, Thamasa seelam agathenam aasu nee, Ramadevan charithamrutham inniyum, AAmodhamul kkondu chollu sarasamai.}} | Oh Parrot which is dear to Lakshmi, come here, Understand that it is not good to delay things, Please tell with interest and great joy, The story of Sri Rama further.}}
==Famous kiḷippaṭṭu== * Adhyathmaramayanam - Ezhuthachan * Mahabharatham kilippattu - Ezhuthachan * Sivapuranam kilippattu - Kunchan Nambiar * Devimahathmyam Kilippattu * Kadangot Makkam (kilippattu) - myth of Kadangot Makkam
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{{Malayalam Literature |state=collapsed}}
Category:Poems in Malayalam
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