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OpinionMy mother is in her late 70s today, her memory is fading, but her pick for her most favourite filmmaker continues to be Kb even today.Anand Kumar RSRavichandran NBack in the ‘70s, in my middle class household of five members, the only person who would watch movies was my mother. She would do that with her “lady” friends in the neighbourhood who were all in their mid-thirties. Typically, they would catch the matinee show at the nearby single screen cinemas. And in the days to follow, discussions and heated arguments around the movie, its story, the characters and its climax would dominate their daily evening ‘thinnai’ chats. As a small kid, these were my first induction sessions into the world of cinema. My mother and her group of women in the same milieu were quite choosy of the films they watched. If there was one filmmaker whose films they would never miss,...