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"[Quoting Zoroaster] "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds." Just like you taught me, papa."
"[firing Paul Prenter] You know when you know you've gone rotten? Really rotten? Fruit fly! Dirty little fruit fly, coming to feast on what's left. But there isn't much left for you to feast on anymore! So fly off! And do what you like with your photographs and your stories, but promise me one thing: that I never see your face again. Ever."
"Being human is a condition that requires a little anaesthesia."
"Roger, there's only room in this band for one hysterical queen."
"I'm not the leader of the band, I'm only the lead singer."
"I'm just a musical prostitute."
"We're family. We believe in each other. That's everything."
"I'm not going to be their victim. Their AIDS poster boy, their cautionary tale."
"What's it gonna take for you all to forgive me?"
"It's a rock and roll record...with the scale of opera...the pathos of Greek tragedy...the wit of Shakespeare...the unbridled joy of musical theater."
"We'll mix genres, we'll cross boundaries...we'll speak in bloody tongues if we want to."
"Fearless lives forever"
"The only thing more extraordinary than their music is his story"
"The music you know, the story you don't"
"Rami Malek – Freddie Mercury"
"Lucy Boynton – Mary Austin"
"Gwilym Lee – Brian May"
"Ben Hardy – Roger Taylor"
"Joe Mazzello – John Deacon"
"Aidan Gillen – John Reid"
"Allen Leech – Paul Prenter"
"Tom Hollander – Jim Beach"
"Mike Myers – Ray Foster"
"Aaron McCusker – Jim Hutton"
"Meneka Das – Jer Bulsara"
"Ace Bhatti – Bomi Bulsara"
"Priya Blackburn – Kashmira Bulsara"
"Max Bennett – David"
"Dermot Murphy – Bob Geldof"
"Dickie Beau – Kenny Everett"
"Jack Roth – Tim Staffell"
"Neil Fox-Roberts – Mr. Austin"
"Philip Andrew – Reinhold Mack"
"Michelle Duncan – Shelley Stern"
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.