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"[writing Johnny Alucard's name backwards] A disciple of Dracula. Oh my God!"
"Do old ideas rest comfortably in an open mind?"
"Jessica, don't go near him! In God's name, don't touch him!"
"My grandfather died fighting a vampire. The most terrible, most dangerous vampire of all time."
"[to Van Helsing] You would play your brains against mine? Against me who has commanded nations?"
"[to Johnny] I have returned to destroy the house of Van Helsing forever, the old through the young. You and your line have been chosen."
"Dig the music, kids. Let it flow into you. Give yourself up to it."
"Look, just to show I'm sorry, I got two tickets for the Jazz spectacular at the Albert Hall."
"Past, present or future, never count out the Count!"
"The count is back, with an eye for London's hot pants... and a taste for everything."
"The time: now. The place: Kings Road, Chelsea. The killer: Count Dracula."
"Christopher Lee - Count Dracula"
"Peter Cushing - Lorrimer Van Helsing"
"Stephanie Beacham - Jessica Van Helsing"
"Christopher Neame - Johnny Alucard"
"Michael Coles - Inspector Murray"
"Marsha Hunt - Gaynor Keating"
"Caroline Munro - Laura Bellows"
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.