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"Guddu! Ammi! [calling out Guddu and mother in Hindi: "Guddu!" "Mum!"]"
"I have to go home. I am lost."
"Do you have any idea what it's like knowing my real brother and mother spending every day of their lives looking for me? Huh? How every day my real brother screams my name? Can you imagine the pain they must be in not knowing where I am?"
"Where’s Guddu? Where is he?"
"[on phone] Hi, Mum. I know you’ll be sound asleep. I just want to say that I’m safe. I’m safe, and the questions have been answered. There are no more dead ends. I’ve found my mother, and… she thanks you both for raising me. She understands that you’re my family. She’s… …happy just knowing I’m alive. I’ve found her, but that doesn’t change who you are. I love you, Mum, so much. And you, Dad. And Mantosh."
"Like Finding Dory,"
"The search begins."
"The true story of a life lost and found."
"Dev Patel - Saroo Brierley"
"Rooney Mara - Lucy"
"Nicole Kidman - Sue Brierley"
"David Wenham - John Brierley"
"Abhishek Bharate - Guddu Khan"
"Divian Ladwa - Mantosh Brierley"
"Priyanka Bose - Kamla Munshi"
"Deepti Naval - Saroj Sood"
"Tannishtha Chatterjee - Noor"
"Nawazuddin Siddiqui - Rama"
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.