Uday Dhadhal

Dhadhal comes from Botad district, in the part of Gujarat long known as Kathiyawad — country whose stories have been kept alive for generations by Charan poets and folk singers. That is the tradition he places himself in: on his own channel he describes his speciality as Charni Sahitya, the bardic literature of the Charans, and calls himself a singer, speaker, composer and lyricist.

His reason is a single line he has made his motto: your culture is your roots, and you are empty without your roots. Nearly everything he records — devotional songs, wedding songs, ballads of valour — is an attempt to keep those roots audible.

The dayro — an all-night gathering of song, story and devotion — is where a Kathiyawadi folk singer earns a name, and it rarely runs to a timetable. As Dhadhal put it in the same interview, the singer himself often doesn't know where tomorrow's programme will be.

The recordings tell the story of the road: a Lagnotsav Dayro at home in Botad, Shivotsav at Kirtidan Gadhvi's utaro in Bhavnath, Junagadh, a Bhavya Lok Dayro at Kumbharia in Morbi, a raasotsav in Dwarka and an evening at Ambe Dham in Godhra. Along the way he has shared the stage with folk names such as Devayat Khavad, Jignesh Barot, Rajbha Gadhvi, Gopal Sadhu and Mayur Dave.

2026 has brought a steady run of releases: “Mahadev Shambhu” in February, “Hanuman Dado Hajrahajur” for Hanuman Jayanti in March, “Rathdo Surajbhan No” and “Maro Bhaibandh Kohinoor” in April, the monsoon love song “Aave Tamari Yaad” in July, and two Krishna songs in late August — “Madhav Murliwala” on the 24th and “Kanuda Kala Kala Re” on the 29th, his most recent release as of September 2026.

The stage has kept pace: in September 2026 he sang at the Bhavya Santvani alongside Mayur Dave and Raj Gadhvi.