His output included songs in his native tongue, Telugu, and other Indian languages including Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi.

Some social media users have used dialogues from popular films in Malayalam, the language spoken in the state, to create memes.

Veronica Goveas, 13, is fluent in the Indian language Malayalam, and studied word roots to learn their meanings and familiarize herself with their spellings.