[2] S. M. Letchuman Chettiar hailed from the Nattukottai Nagarathar clan in Chettinad.
He advised M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, a stage actor, against producing films.
Bhagavathar's first film Pavalakkodi, which ran well in Tamil-speaking areas of India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), marked the debut of Lena as a film producer.
[4] Soon after the release of Pavalakkodi, Lena moved to and managed his own production unit titled Krishna Pictures, which marked the Tamil debut of P.
[5] Lena was never credited as producer in any of his films as he was an "undischarged insolvent" in the later half of his life, because of which he could not carry on any business under his name.