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"You fools! Do you think with your crosses and your wafers you can destroy me? Me! You do not know how many men have come against me. I am the king of my kind! You have accomplished nothing, Van Helsing. Time is on my side. In a century, when you are dust, I shall wake and call Lucy, my queen from her grave."
"[to Lucy] Now it is you, my best beloved one. You will be flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. You shall cross land or sea to do my bidding. I need your blood. I need..."
"Throughout history, he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire."
"The story of the greatest lover who ever lived, died, and lived again."
"Frank Langella - Count Dracula"
"Sir Laurence Olivier - Abraham Van Helsing"
"Donald Pleasence - Dr. Jack Seward"
"Kate Nelligan - Lucy Seward"
"Trevor Eve - Jonathan Harker"
"Jan Francis - Mina Van Helsing"
"Janine Duvitski - Annie"
"Tony Haygarth - Milo Renfield"
"Teddy Turner - Swales"
"Sylvester McCoy - Walter"
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.