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"[to Rameses] Goodbye, brother."
"[to Buka] Stop it. Stop! Stop it! LEAVE THE MAN ALONE!!!"
"Faster, you beasts! You run like mules!"
"Well, uh, impressive. Hmm. Very well, Moses. I'll play along. [chuckling] Hotep. Huy. Give this snake charmer our answer."
"[after the death of his son] You...and your people...have my permission...to go. [Moses tries to comfort him; jerks off] LEAVE ME!"
"[last lines] Moses! MOSES!"
"With this staff, you shall do, My wonders!"
"Look. Look at your people, Moses. They are free."
"Moses, hear what I say. I've been a slave all my life. And God has never answered my prayers until now. God saved you from the river, He saved you in all your wanderings, and even now, He saves you from the wrath of Pharaoh. God will not abandon you. So don't you abandon us."
"Miriam, do you want us flogged?"
"Yocheved: [singing] River, O, River / Flow gently for me / Such precious cargo you bear / Do you know somewhere he can be free? / River, deliver him there."
"Hotep and Huy: [repeated line] By the power of Ra!"
"Overseers: [chanting] Mud...sand...water...straw. Faster! Mud...and lift...sand...and pull...water...and raise up! Straw...faster!"
"Hebrews: [singing]"
"Val Kilmer - Moses/God (voice)"
"Ralph Fiennes - Rameses II (voice)"
"Michelle Pfeiffer - Tzipporah (voice)"
"Sandra Bullock - Miriam (voice)"
"Jeff Goldblum - Aaron (voice)"
"Danny Glover - Jethro (voice)"
"Patrick Stewart - Pharaoh Seti I (voice)"
"Helen Mirren - Queen Tuya (voice)"
"Steve Martin - Hotep (voice)"
"Martin Short - Huy (voice)"
"Ofra Haza - Yocheved (voice)"
"Bobby Motown - Rameses' Son (voice)"
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.