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"We had the chance but we were scared. We walked away. WE LIVED OUR LIVES IN FEAR!"
"Shall we dance?"
"We're telling a story. The rumba is the dance of love. Look at me like you're in love. [Fran follows this instruction perhaps a little too enthusiastically] That's it. Good."
"Fran: A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
"Barry Fife: [referring to Ken Railings] Let's not forget, Les, that a Pan Pacific Champion becomes a hero, a guiding light to all dancers, someone who'll set the right example."
"Barry Fife: If you can't dance a step, you can't teach it, and if you can't teach it - we might as well all pack up and go home. With young Liz available again, you've got a chance to get your status quo vadis back... so to speak."
"Paul Mercurio — Scott Hastings"
"Tara Morice — Fran"
"Bill Hunter — Barry Fife"
"Pat Thomson — Shirley Hastings"
"Gia Carides — Liz Holt"
"Peter Whitford — Les Kendall"
"Barry Otto — Doug Hastings"
"John Hannan — Ken Railings"
"Sonia Kruger — Tina Sparkle"
"Kris McQuade — Charm Leachman"
"Pip Mushin — Wayne Burns"
"Leonie Page — Vanessa Cronin"
"Antonio Vargas — Rico"
"Steve Grace — Luke"
"Lauren Hewett — Kylie Hastings"
"Kerry Shrimpton — Pam Short"
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.