{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox writer | name = S. Revathi | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1974}}<ref name=pi/> | birth_place = Malailoyal, Thiruverumbur, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India | occupation = Poet, lyricist, activist, Siddha doctor<ref name=pi/> | subject = | years_active = 2000–present | website = }}
'''S. Revathi''' (pen name: '''Kutti Revathi'''; born 1974) is an Indian lyricist, poet, activist and doctor. She has published three books of poetry and is the editor of ''Panikkudam'', a literary quarterly for women's writing and also the first Tamil feminist magazine. Post several literary meetings and reviewing poetry collections by fellow students, she began working on some of her own pieces.
==Life== Following school, she studied Siddha medicine and got a bachelor's degree in Siddha medicine and surgery. She had been pursuing her doctoral research in medical anthropology at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Chennai. Revathi received the Sigaram 15: Faces of Future award for literature from India Today and was awarded a travel grant in 2005 by the Sahitya Akademi to meet leading litterateurs from India. She is a contemporary Tamil poet and has published numerous controversial poetry collections.<ref name=pi>{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/6288/27/Kutti-Revathi|title=Kutti Revathi|location=Rotterdam|publisher=Poetry International|accessdate=20 June 2013|archive-date=23 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623235640/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/6288/27/Kutti-Revathi|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref name=mm>{{cite web|url=http://www.maduraimessenger.org/printed-version/2013/april/in-conversation-05/|title=Kutti Revathi: In the Eye of a Poetic Storm|author=Elizabeth Dougan|location=Australia|publisher=Madurai Messenger|date=April 2013|accessdate=20 June 2013|archive-date=2 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194043/http://www.maduraimessenger.org/printed-version/2013/april/in-conversation-05/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=bow>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20071001-body-of-words-734094-2007-09-23| title=Body of words|author=Nirmala Ravindran|location=Australia|magazine=India Today| date=24 September 2007|access-date=20 June 2013}}</ref>
==Poems and literature== ''Panikkudam'' is the first Tamil feminist magazine by her claimed varied aspects such as family, politics, business, discovery of feminine language, introducing modern play, novels, short stories and poetry created by women writers.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}
Interviews of women writers, introduction to modern poetry and short stories, translations of such works into Tamil from World languages, discussions of the creative process and sangam literature were some of the elements that made the part of the magazine.<ref name=pi/><ref name=mm/> In the field of poetry, her first release in the year 2000 was ''Poonaiyai Pola Alaiyum Velicham''.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}
Kutti Revathi's second book, ''Mulaigal'' that was published in 2002, controversy from the conservatives of the Tamil literary establishment. A group of outraged male film lyricists damned the book. The debate extended to parameters of cultural debate: obscene calls, letters and threats ensued, and comments on the author's morality were freely aired.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} While one lyricist demanded that writers of her types must watch out for dire consequences, the other exhorted the public to burn them on Chennai's Mount Road. However she explained, "My aim is to explore 'Mulaigal' (breasts) as an 'inhabited' living reality, rather than an 'exhibited' commodity."{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} Adjoint to the content, an essay titled "With Words I Weave My Body", she discussed the ways in which a patriarchal tradition, fearful of sharing the power of the written word, compelled women to imprint narratives on their bodies. Her third release was ''Thanimaiyin Aayiram Irakkaigal'' in 2003.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}
In 2007 the English translation of her poetry ''Body's Door'' was released. ''Shattered Boundaries'' another collection of her poems in English translation was released in 2012.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}
==Cinema== Revathi was involved in the 2013 film ''Maryan'' when the film's director Bharatbala was on the lookout for a Tamil scholar. For the same film's soundtrack album, she wrote lyrics of the melancholic song "Yenga Pona Raasa" and the song "Innum Konjam Naeram". Upon the musical success of the album especially both the tracks, her lyrical styles were critically applauded.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/word-for-word/article4692195.ece| title=Word for word |author=Lakshmi Krupa| newspaper =The Hindu| date=2013-05-07|accessdate=2013-05-08}}</ref> She wrote the lyrics for the song "Ennile Maha Oliyo" that was aired on MTV Coke Studio (India). And She also has written a song for the music scored by Oscar composer AR Rahman in Tamil Version of the film MOM directed by Ravi Udyawar.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}
Have also written lyrics for the songs in the successful films, Maya directed by Ashwin Saravanan, & 8 Thottakkal directed by Sri Ganesh. She made her directorial debut with the film ''Siragu''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/kollywood/290519/siragu-explores-life-and-relationship.html|title=Siragu explores life and relationship|date=29 May 2019}}</ref>
*2003 in poetry *2002 in poetry
==References== 6. {{reflist|2}}https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/cannes-2026-kutti-revathy-tamil-film-vanji-kundalakesi-rukkumani-kumaraguruparan-rajmohan-subramaniyan/article71020275.ece
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