Revathi

Personal context

Summary

Revathi is an Indian actor and director known for work across Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi cinema, including Anjali, Thevar Magan, and her films Mitr: My Friend and Phir Milenge. Women’s experiences recur in her work; she directed Phir Milenge, about HIV stigma, and made Mitr with an all-woman crew. She helped found the Women in Cinema Collective and has publicly backed efforts to address harassment and improve women’s safety and opportunities in the film industry. In 2008, she said she did not identify as a feminist; no public record of partisan campaigning or race-focused advocacy is established.