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"[softly] Sleep now, Shere Khan. Be angry no more."
"[when Mowgli is in a cage] I lived in a king's palace, in a cage just like this. I bit, and I scratched, and I spent my entire life fighting. Until one day, I just stopped, and they gave me their trust. Gain their trust, and they'll let you out."
"You've got hands with fingers on the ends, so let's use them."
"[first lines of the film; narrating] I am the jungle's eyes. I can see the past, and the future. It is I, Kaa, who witnessed the coming of man. And the jungle trying to survive. I saw chaos and darkness come to our lands. I saw the tiger, Shere Khan, killing man, and breaking the jungle's ancient law. And then, one fateful night, I saw the jungle place its hopes into the hands of a small creature, the like of which it had never seen before."
"I think we can all agree, Mowgli, that you are something the jungle has never seen before."
"[to Mowgli] Say something, or I shall get bored. And when I get bored, I get hungry!"
"One day you will speak, and the jungle will listen. What will you say then, man-cub?"
"[protecting Mowgli from the monkeys] Leave the man-cub alone. He belongs with us!"
"[last line of the film; narrating] With the tiger and the hunter now gone, the future shimmered from darkness into light. Mowgli, man and wolf, both and neither, had given the jungle a voice. And for as long as he stood watch, it would speak a lasting peace."
"The cub is spoken for, he is one of us! You will treat him as you would your own. As long as I am alive, the pack will stand by the man-cub."
"[to Shere Khan about Mowgli] This cub is under the protection of the pack. Should you decide to take me, you take on the pack, all of us."
"I will taste your blood, man-cub!"
"His parents are dead. I killed them. There is no one to come looking for him."
"The cub is mine. I have already tasted its mother's blood. It is my right."
"You can not be leader forever. The day you miss your kill, the man-cub's blood will run down my chin!"
"My, my, how you've grown. [slaps monkey aside] And how much chaos you've brought upon the pack. So much more... to come. Just a little taste..."
"But you permitted man to live among you! You pretend that he is a wolf! But we both know that is the one thing he will never be! He will always be a man! You poisoned the jungle! But you are no longer leader now, are you? You missed your kill. And by your law, your pack must challenge you."
"Look at you, using a man's tool to do your killing. What would Baloo and Bagheera think?"
"[last words before his death] You know, I can still hear... your mother's screams... the night I took... her life!"
"Sometimes, I dream I'm a tiger, but I always wake up a hyena."
"Akela's missed his kill! Akela's missed his kill!"
"[last lines before he retreats in terror and leaves Shere Khan to his fate] What's he doing!?"
"The greatest journey is finding where you belong."
"Witness the darkest telling of the beloved masterpiece."
"He was an outcast... a survivor... a legend."
"Outcast. Survivor. Legend."
"Rohan Chand as Mowgli."
"Matthew Rhys as John Lockwood."
"Freida Pinto as Messua."
"Christian Bale as Bagheera."
"Andy Serkis as Baloo."
"Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan."
"Cate Blanchett as Kaa."
"Tom Hollander as Tabaqui."
"Peter Mullan as Akela."
"Naomie Harris as Nisha."
"Eddie Marsan as Vihaan."
"Jack Reynor as Gray Brother."
"Louis Ashbourne Serkis as Bhoot."
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.