Lenin Rajendran
| Lenin Rajendran | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
Trivandrum, Kerala, India  |
| Other names | Rajendran |
| Occupation | Director, Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Lenin Rajendran is an Indian film director and screenwriter who has worked in Malayalam cinema. He is one of the major director of Malayalam cinema
Career
Beginning his film-making career as an assistant to director P. A. Backer, Rajendran made his directorial debut with Venal (1982). From his first film to his latest one, Rathri Mazha (2007), Rajendran has been consistent with the quality of his films, not surrendering to market forces even while using the form and stars of popular cinema.[1]
An active member of the Communist party, Rajendran at times integrates his political orientation into his screen work: his 1985 film Meenamasithile Sooryan was about the anti-feudal upheaval of the 1940s in Kerala from a Communist viewpoint.
Swathi Thirunal (1987), a period film was a biographical work of a 19th-century king of Travancore, better known as a musical composer. While Daivathinte Vikrithikal (1992) was the cinematic adoption of M. Mukundan's novel of the same name, Mazha (2001) was adapted from Madhavikutty's Nashtapetta Neelambhari. One of his latest films, Anyar (2003) deals with the hot topic of communal polarisation in Kerala.
His other films are kulam (1982), Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla (1983), Puravrutham (1988), and Vachanam (1989).
Awards
Kerala state film awards
- 2010-Best Second film :Makaramanju
- 2008- Best Director: Rathri Mazha
- 1994-Best Film Daivathinte Vikrithikal
- 1996-Best popular movie: kulam
- 1997-Special jury award:Swathi Thirunal
Filmography
| Year | Title | Cast |
| 1981 | Venal (The Summer) | Sukumaran, Jalaja |
| 1982 | Chillu (The Fragments) | Venu Nagavalli, Shanthi Krishna |
| 1983 | Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla | Prem Nazir |
| 1985 | Meenamasathile Sooryan (Mid-Summer Sun) | Bharath Gopi, Venu Nagavalli, Vijay Menon, Murali, Ravi, Shobana |
| 1985 | Mazhakkala Megham | |
| 1987 | Swathi Thirunal | Anant Nag, Ranjini |
| 1988 | Puravrutham (The Past) | Om Puri |
| 1989 | Vachanam (The Word) | Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, Sithara, Sreevidya, Thilakan, Mamukkoya |
| 1992 | Daivathinte Vikrithikal (The Ways of God) | Raghuvaran, Srividya, Thilakan, Vineeth, Sudheesh, Siddique |
| 1997 | Kulam | Suresh Gopi, Bhanupriya, Vijayaraghavan |
| 2000 | Mazha (The Rain) | Biju Menon, Lal, Samyuktha Varma, Jagathi Sreekumar, Thilakan, Urmila Unni |
| 2003 | Anyar (The Outsiders) | Jyothirmayi, Biju Menon, Lal, Siddique |
| 2007 | Rathri Mazha (Night Rain) | Vineeth, Meera Jasmine, Manoj K. Jayan, Biju Menon, Lalu Alex, Cochin Haneefa |
| 2010 | Makaramanju (The Mist of Capricorn) | Santosh Sivan, Karthika Nair, Nithya Menon, Lakshmi Sarma |
| 2013 | Edavappathy (The Monsoon) | Manisha Koirala, Siddhartha |
References
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