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"Oh, I beg your pardon. Was that your leg? I had no idea we were going into a tunnel. I thought the compartment was empty."
"If you're going to kill someone, do it simply."
"[to Lina] I think I'm falling in love with you, and I don't quite like it."
"Well, well. You're the first woman I've ever met who said yes when she meant yes."
"Hello Monkeyface!"
"I must go now or I'll be late to luncheon. Anyway, if my father saw me come in both late and beautiful, he might have a stroke."
"You couldn't hurt a fly, Bertram, unless it was already dead."
"I always think of my murderers as my heroes."
"General McLaidlaw: Good heavens! You can't expect me to remember every detail about everybody, can you?"
"Each time they kissed... there was the thrill of love... the threat of murder!"
"Love in his Heart ... Tragedy in his Mind!"
"In his arms she felt safety...in his absence, haunting dread!"
"Cary Grant - Johnnie Aysgarth"
"Joan Fontaine - Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth"
"Cedric Hardwicke - General McLaidlaw"
"Nigel Bruce - Gordon Cochrane 'Beaky' Thwaite"
"Dame May Whitty - Mrs. Martha McLaidlaw"
"Isabel Jeans - Mrs. Newsham"
"Heather Angel - Ethel (Maid)"
"Auriol Lee - Isobel Sedbusk (final film role)"
"Reginald Sheffield - Reggie Wetherby"
"Leo G. Carroll - Captain George Melbeck"
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.