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"A pint of bitter [snaps fingers as barman walks away] in a thin glass."
"[To Eric] You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow."
"I'm going to sit in the car and whistle Rule Britannia."
"You don't give a man like Jack a drink in those piddly little glasses. Give him the bloody bottle."
"Architect: [about Brumby] It's very rude to disappear like that. Where can he possibly be? [Sounds of police cars converging on the car park can be heard coming from below] I’ve got an awful feeling we aren’t going to get our fees for this job."
"Michael Caine - Jack Carter"
"Ian Hendry - Eric Paice"
"John Osborne - Cyril Kinnear"
"Britt Ekland - Anna"
"Bryan Mosley - Cliff Brumby"
"George Sewell - Con McCarty"
"Tony Beckley - Peter the Dutchman"
"Glynn Edwards - Albert Swift"
"Alun Armstrong - Keith"
"Bernard Hepton - Thorpe"
"Geraldine Moffat - Glenda"
"Dorothy White - Margaret"
"Rosemarie Dunham - Edna"
"John Bindon - Sid Fletcher"
"Terence Rigby - Gerald Fletcher"
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.