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"I help girls out."
"[to young woman] Right then dear, first thing we've got to do is put the kettle on."
"Right dear, you're gonna have to take your knickers off."
"Whatever she done, she done it out of the goodness of her heart!"
"It don't seem fair. Look at my mom: six of us in two rooms. It's all right if you're rich, but if you can't feed them, you can't love them, can you?"
"Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake"
"Phil Davis - Stan Drake"
"Daniel Mays - Sid Drake"
"Alex Kelly - Ethel Drake"
"Sandra Voe - Vera's Mother"
"Eddie Marsan - Reg"
"Adrian Scarborough - Frank Drake"
"Heather Craney - Joyce Drake"
"Sally Hawkins - Susan"
"Ruth Sheen - Lily"
"Lesley Sharp - Jessie Barnes"
"Sam Troughton - David"
"Anna Keaveney - Nellie"
"Leo Bill - Ronnie"
"Gerard Monaco - Kenny"
"Liz White - Pamela Barnes"
"Peter Wight - Det. Inspector Webster"
"Martin Savage - Det. Sergeant Vickers"
"Jim Broadbent - Judge"
"Simon Chandler - Mr. Wells"
"Lesley Manville - Mrs. Wells"
"Marion Bailey - Mrs. Fowler"
"Anthony O'Donnell - Mr. Sharp"
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.