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"I'd like to dedicate this to my father, Francis L. It's a song the girls in the band wrote, Lisa and Wendy."
"[using his voice through a puppet] You don't need those girls, or their stupid music, all you need is me. Man, I don't know. My life's a bitch."
"[storming through the house while looking for Francis L.] Where are you?! Where are you?! Answer me, motherfucker!"
"I'm gonna go join Morris's group."
"[singing] I'm a sex shooter, come and play with my affections"
"Prince as The Kid"
"Apollonia Kotero as Apollonia"
"Morris Day as Morris"
"Olga Karlatos as Mother"
"Clarence Williams III as Francis L."
"Jerome Benton as Jerome"
"Billy Sparks as Billy"
"Jill Jones as Jill"
"Dez Dickerson as Dez"
"Wendy Melvoin as Wendy"
"Lisa Coleman as Lisa"
"Matt Fink as Matt"
"Bobby Z. as Bobby"
"Brown Mark as Brown"
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.