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"That image kept haunting me for years and took me into the industrial look of the designs."
"They become monsters… They're more like machines, like monsters."
"I chose a visual language based on what was around in 1945… I couldn't use any CGI because there was none in that time frame. I kept to movie‑making as it was done in the early days."
"It means that I had to keep finding alternatives that often led to much more creative solutions than I'd thought of in the first place."
"The way war makes people become monsters. They forget what normality is and end up infecting other people and turning them into monsters."
"My father worked for an oil company and he took me to work with him once. I was so impressed by the size of the equipment, the sounds, the smells, etc. I used to dress up as all kinds of industrial monsters."
"Interviewer: What inspires you as a filmmaker? Richard Raaphorst: Music inspires me more than anything, specifically instrumental. When I hear a great soundtrack or even classical music, I start seeing things."
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.