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"We know how to behave, we've had lessons."
"[In a female voice] I now declare this bridge open."
"He's sex obsessed. The older generation is leading this country to galloping ruin."
"[Wearing a beard, looking into a mirror] My name's Betty."
"Control yourself, you'll spurt."
"[Sees Ringo reading a magazine while wearing a Queen's guard bearskin hat] Hey, he's reading the Queen. That's an in-joke, you know."
"You're a swine."
"Mister, can we have our ball back?"
"If you lost him I'll cripple ya!"
"I like to keep Britain tidy."
"No, actually, we're just good friends."
""Oh, that this too too sullied flesh would melt..." [Quickly turns to the camera] ZAP!"
"[Regarding Ringo] He's very fussy about his drums, you know. They loom large in his legend."
"Hey, you won't interfere with the basic rugged concept of me personality, will you madam?"
"I don't think it's very likely we'll get on. The law of averages is against it."
"I'm going parading before it's too late."
"There you go, hiding behind a smokescreen of bourgeois clichés."
"Come in, number seven, your time's up!"
"Norm: Shake, that that wig off, it suits you."
"Shake: [Trying to follow the Beatles into a casino, past a security guard] I'm with them. I'm, uh, Ringo's sister."
"TV Director: Get me a bottle of milk and some tranquilizers. I see it all now, it's a plot... a plot..."
"John Lennon - Himself"
"Paul McCartney - Himself"
"George Harrison - Himself"
"Ringo Starr - Himself"
"Wilfred Brambell - Grandfather"
"Norman Rossington - Himself"
"John Junkin - Shake"
"Victor Spinetti - TV Director"
"Anna Quayle - Millie"
"Richard Vernon - Gentleman on Train"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.