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"My father, he died recently. How can someone just disappear like that? Forever."
"Love doesn't stop when time passes, or you live in different places, or sombody's gone. That's how it was with me and Duma."
"[last lines of the film; voiceover narration] There are things you know without knowing. For Duma, it was his wildness. For Rip, his family. For me, it was my dad. Everything he was, everything he believed in is now part of me. I was taking Duma home, but he took me somewhere too. Finding Duma's true home brought me back to mine and showed me that love doesn't stop when time passes or you live in different places or somebody's gone. That's how it was with me and Duma."
"That is a place of many teeth, my friend."
"Your cheetah is a great hunter. I'm very impressed... he caught an egg!"
"People go when they are ready to go, not when you are. We are all just travelers on the same river, grandparents, parents, sons and daughters. We all have our time on the river. We do what we can before we disappear."
"Alexander Michaeletos as Xan."
"Anthony, Azaro, Nikita, Sasha and Savannah as Duma."
"Eamonn Walker as Ripkuna."
"Campbell Scott as Peter."
"Hope Davis as Kristin."
"Mary Makhatho as Thandi."
"Nthabiseng Kenoshi as Lucille."
"Jennifer Steyn as Aunt Gwen."
"Nicky Rebelo as Coach Nagy."
"Garth Renecle as Hock Bender."
"André Stolz as Xan's Teacher."
"Charlotte Savage as Poetry Student."
"Ronald Shange as Policeman."
"Nadia Kretschmer as Tourist #1."
"John Whiteley as Tourist #2."
"Clive Scott as Tourist #3 (Eager Man)."
"Catriona Andrew as Tourist #4 (Beautiful Woman)."
"Errol Ballentine as White Haired Doctor."
"Michele Levin as Doctor's Wife."
"Sam Ngakane as Old Man in Village."
"Adelaide Shabalala as Medicine Woman, Suliwa."
"Thokozani Ndaba as Rip's Wife, Melika."
"Wright Ngubeni as Rip's Son."
"Bernard Msimang as Rip's Father."
"Ivy Nkutha as Rip's Mother."
"Sheba as Young Duma."
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.