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"[after Bagheera tells Baloo that he is taking Mowgli back to the Man Village] Man Village? They'll ruin 'im! They'll make a man out of 'im!"
"[after Bagheera asks him how does he think Mowgli will survive] "How do you think he will..." What do you mean, "how do you think he..."? He's with me, ain't he? And I'll learn 'im all I know."
"[after Mowgli climbs on Baloo's butt and tickles him with his feet] No. No, no. No, no. Now, you're tickling."
"[as he and Mowgli float down a river] Lemme tell you some'm, Li'l Britches: if you act like that bee acts, uh-uh. You're workin' too hard. And don't spend your time just lookin' around.... for something you want that can't be found."
"[yanks a pouty Bagheera's tail as he smirks] Come on, Baggy! Get with the beat!"
"[furiously] Are you outta your mind?! I promised him that he could stay here in the jungle with me!"
"He's a dandy! [Playfully slaps Mowgli on the bottom which sends him rolling into a log and leaves him knocked out on the ground.]"
"[repeated line] You better believe it!"
"BAGHEERA!!! Oh, you heard me, huh?"
""Pawpaw".... Ha! Of all the silly gibberish."
"Oh, no! It's Baloo! That shiftless, stupid jungle bum!"
"Now, come on! Up this tree. You'll be safer up there."
"WHY, YOU BIG FRAUD! You four-flusher! I am fed up!"
"[laughing] Is that all the better you can climb?"
"[repeated line] Yeah, man!"
"[Responding to Bagheera] Yes, I wanna stay in the jungle."
"[to King Louie] But I dunno how to make fire."
"You told me a lie, Kaa. You said I could trust you."
"[angrily pushes Shere Khan's paw away] You don't scare me! I won't run from anyone!"
"[to Kaa] Oh, go away and leave me alone!"
"It's like you said, you can't trust anyone!"
"[to Bagheera, who is about to be hypnotized by him] "Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you!"
"Say now, what have we here? [Giggles] It's a man-cub. A delicious man-cub."
"Just you wait 'til I get you in my coils!"
"I don't blame you. I'm not like those so-called fair-weather friends of yours. You can believe in me."
"Oh, you have no idea. It's simply terrible. I can't eat, I can't sleep, so I sing myself to sleep. You know, self-hypnosis. Let me show you how it works..."
"You have just made a serious mistake, my friend. A very stupid mistake! Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you. Both eyes if you please. You have just sealed your doom."
"Kaa: [after Mowgli learns he has been deceived by the snake] If I never see that skinny little shrimp again, it will be too soon. [slithering away] Oh, my sacroiliac."
"Shere Khan: [while Baloo holds his tail] Let go, you big oaf!"
"Mowgli: [angrily hitting Shere Khan's face with a stick] Take that, ya big bully!"
"Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli"
"Phil Harris as V. Baloo"
"Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera"
"Louis Prima as King Louie"
"George Sanders as Shere Khan"
"Sterling Holloway as Kaa"
"J. Pat O'Malley as Colonel Hathi/Buzzy"
"Verna Felton as Winifred"
"Clint Howard as Junior"
"Chad Stuart as Flaps"
"Lord Tim Hudson as Dizzy"
"John Abbott as Akela"
"Ben Wright as Rama the Father Wolf"
"Darleen Carr as Shanti"
"Leo De Lyon as Flunkey*"
"Hal Smith as The Slob Elephant*"
"Ralph Wright as The Gloomy Elephant*"
"Digby Wolfe as Ziggy*"
"Bill Skiles and Pete Henderson as Monkeys*"
"Thurl Ravenscroft as Colonel Hathi's crew"
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.