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"Come, Mister Beck, your face reacts faster than your brain. You remember very well..."
"For Heaven's sake, stop sawing away on that infernal instrument! It was a sad day when Mother gave it to you, a sad day for her, a sad day for you, a sad day for us all... What I cannot understand is why, since you've had that violin with you so long, you never learned to play!"
"Max Steiner: Nobody steals in my pub, except me!"
"Sherlock Holmes meets Jack the Ripper! Here comes the original caped crusader!"
"John Neville - Sherlock Holmes"
"Donald Houston - Dr. Watson"
"John Fraser - Lord Carfax"
"Anthony Quayle - Doctor Murray"
"Barbara Windsor - Annie Chapman"
"Adrienne Corri - Angela Osborne"
"Frank Finlay - Inspector Lestrade"
"Judi Dench - Sally Young"
"Charles Régnier - Joseph Beck"
"Cecil Parker - Prime Minister"
"Barry Jones - Duke of Shires"
"Robert Morley - Mycroft Holmes"
"Dudley Foster - Home Secretary"
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.