Lenin Rajendran was an Indian film director and screenwriter who worked in Malayalam cinema.

He was defeated in the election which was held amidst the emotional backdrop after Rajiv Gandhi's death.

[4] Swathi Thirunal (1987), a period film was a biographical work of a 19th-century king of Travancore, better known as a musical composer.

Lenin Rajendran died on 14 January 2019 in Apollo Hospital Chennai after a liver transplant, at the age of 67.

His dead body was taken back to his native place, and was cremated with full state honours.