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"[opening narration] They were my two best friends in the whole world. For five weeks. It was a total accident we even met. Me, a bum from Brooklyn using phoney frequent-flyer miles. Tony Croft was kind of a golden boy from Harvard School of Architecture. We met Lewis McBride, this long-haired Greenpeace tree-hugger guy. So the plan was to party till we ran out of cash in Malaysia. It was a paradise of rum, girls, and good, cheap hash."
"[witnessing Lewis McBride being sent to the gallows] I'm here, Lewis, I'm right here. You're not alone, Lewis. Look at me, Lewis. You're not alone, Lewis. Look at me. You're not alone. I'm here. Look at me. See me, Lewis. You're not alone. I'm right here. I'm right here, Lewis, I'm right here. I see you, Lewis. I'm right here. Lewis, you are not alone right now. I'm right here. You are not alone, Lewis. I see you. I see you, Lewis. I'm right here. You're not alone. You are not alone, Lewis!"
"Give up three years of their lives or give up the life of their friend. They have eight days to decide."
"Vince Vaughn - John "Sheriff" Volgecherev"
"Anne Heche - Beth Eastern"
"Joaquin Phoenix - Lewis McBride"
"David Conrad - Tony Croft"
"Vera Farmiga - Kerrie"
"Nick Sandow - Ravitch"
"Jada Pinkett Smith - M.J. Major"
"Raymond J. Barry - Sheriff's Father"
"Patrick Teoh - Chief Judge"
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.