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"[repeated line] Great snakes!"
"We can't turn back. Not now. Not now."
"Well, this is a fine mess."
"And to think, all it took was a day in the Sahara. Congratulations, Captain, you're sober."
"How's your thirst for adventure, Captain?"
"Billions of blistering blue barnacles! I swear, as the last of the Haddocks, I'll find that treasure before him!"
"Nobody takes MY ship!"
"Failed? There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool, a loser, a hopeless souse. Don't you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Do you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There's something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you."
"Thundering typhoons!"
"[after being nearly shot by enemy plane] Troglodytes! Slave traders! Mutant malingerers! Freshwater politicians!"
"Typical landlubbers, eh? No stamina these days."
"[on seeing Snowy] Ahhhh! A giant rat of Sumatra!"
"By Jupiter, I have a beard? Since when did I have a beard?!"
"To the death, Red Rackham."
"Do you think it was an accident I took Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew, Haddock's treacherous first mate? Nothing is an accident."
"We go back a long way, Captain Haddock and I. We've unfinished business. And this time, I'm going to make him pay."
"The legend says only a Haddock can discover the secret of the Unicorn. But it took a Rackham to get the job done. So you've lost again, Haddock. That's right. Why don't you have a drink? It's all you've got left, isn't it? Everything that was rightfully yours is now mine. Including this ship."
"Oh, I'm glad you know the truth, Haddock. Until you could remember, killing you wouldn't have been this much fun!"
"Faster you idiot! Faster!"
"Jamie Bell as Tintin"
"Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock and Sir Francis Haddock"
"Daniel Craig as Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine and Red Rackham"
"Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as Thomson and Thompson"
"Daniel Mays as Allan"
"Enn Reitel as Nestor, Mr. Nicholls, and Mr. Crabtree"
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.