Gaddar

Gadar is a revolutionary Telugu balladeer and vocal Naxalite activist from the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He rose to prominence by singly highly emotional and stirring songs that were popular among the poor and the rural hinterland of the Telangana region notorious for the PWG (People's War Group) a Maoist organization that uses mainly violence to achieve its goals. His style of singing involves use of high pitches in the local telengana variant of telugu thus touching a chord among the locals as popular telugu media and songs only show the fluent or neutral telugu. His use of urdu words is also seen to be a perfect fit since people from this region often mix a few urdu words unlike the telugu speakers from other parts of the state. His songs were also used in many telangana centric movies enacted by various cine persona from the Telugu film industry. Due to his affiliations with the previously banned party he was prevented from singing in public till recently. He is prominently visible in any stage by his trademark black "shawl" that is typical of a telengana shepherd dress.