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"(in a rage to his people, after they tried to burn him alive) Do you think you are alive because you can fight? You are alive because me! Because of what I did to save you!"
"Never forget who I am."
"It's not a child's place to save his country."
"(to his son) Run to your mother."
"(to Vlad) Death cannot separate us, for one life is born from the other."
"(opening narration) In the year of our Lord 1442, the Turkish Sultan enslaved 1,000 Transylvanian boys to fill the ranks of his army. These child slaves were beaten without mercy, trained to kill without conscience, to crave the blood of all who defied the Turks. From among these boys, one grew into a warrior so fierce that entire armies would retreat in terror at the mention of his name: Vlad the Impaler, Son of the Dragon. Sickened by his monstrous acts, Vlad came to bury his past with the dead and returned to Transylvania to rule in peace. His subjects called him Prince. I called him Father. But the world would come to know him as... Dracula."
"My father was a great man. A hero, so they say. But sometimes the world doesn't need another hero. Sometimes what it needs is a monster."
"There is always a price for power."
"(to Vlad) Most men reek of fear. In you I smell hope."
"(as moves to follow Vlad and Mina) Let the games begin."
"(to Dracula) For centuries, these moldering walls have been my gallows. For I am bound to this cave, condemned by one who turned me. Oh, and I have waited an eternity for a man of your strength, your gifts, your will. A man worthy of the dark and all its powers. For if I am your salvation, you are mine."
"Luke Evans — Vlad III Tempes"
"Sarah Gadon — Mirena / Mina"
"Dominic Copper — Mehmed II"
"Art Parkinson — Ingeras"
"Charles Dance — Master Vampire"
"Diarmaid Murtagh — Dumitru"
"Paul Kaye — Brother Lucian"
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.