M. T. Rajen (28 May 1886 – 14 July 1943), was a prominent movie entrepreneur of the early Tamil film era.
He went to Burma on his own at a very early age to work for the railways there and returned to make his fortune in the electrical contracting business, again a pioneering field those days.
The theatres, Prabhat, Broadway, Saraswathi and Kinema Central were all either run or owned by Madras Theatres Ltd. Rajen was also an investor in real estate properties and owned numerous prime properties in Madras.
[1][2][3] Rajen served as one of the founding fathers of the South India Film Chamber of Commerce, along with C. P. Sarathy, K. Subramaniam, S. Soundararajan, C.S.V.
Rajen & Co., a property management firm is successfully run along with its sister concerns, M.T.