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Palak Muchhal (born 30 March ) is an Indian playback singer and lyricist from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. She and her younger brother Palash Muchhal perform stage shows across India and abroad to raise funds for the poor children who need financial assistance for the medical treatment of heart diseases.^[1] Muchhal also performs as a playback singer for Bollywood films and other Indian film industries.

She has rendered her voice in Hindi films such as Ek Tha Tiger (), Aashiqui 2 (), Kick () and Action Jackson () Prem Ratan Dhan Payo () M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story () Kaabil (), Baaghi 2 () and Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas ().

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Her rendition of the song Kaun tujhe" from the film"M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story has earned her much praise from fans as well as prominent personalities in the music industry.^[2][3] On 6 November , she married music composer Mithoon, with whom she had earlier worked on the soundtrack of Aashiqui 2.^[4]

Background

Palak Muchhal was born on 30 March into a MaheshwariMarwari family in Indore.

Her mother, Amita Muchhal, is a homemaker and her father, Rajkumar Muchhal, works for a private firm.^[5] She has a younger brother, Palash Muchhal.^[6] She did her schooling from Queens College Indore. In May Muchhal stated that she was doing her final year of from a college in Indore.^[7]

Charity work

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Muchhal became a member of Kalyanji-Anandji Little Star, a group of young singers, when she was four years old.^[8] During the Kargil War of , when aged seven, she spent a week singing at shops in her home city, Indore, to raise funds for the families of deceased Indian soldiers.

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Her efforts received substantial coverage in Indian media and she raised ₹25, (US$). Later that year, she sang to raise funds for victims of the Odisha cyclone.^[9]

Her decision to use her voice to help others was triggered when she saw poor children using their clothes to clean train compartments.^[5] Around the same time, teachers at Nidhi Bal Vinay Mandir, an Indore-based school, approached Muchhal and her parents with a request for a charity show to raise funds for their pupil, Lokesh, who was suffering from a congenital heart defect.

Lokesh's father was an impoverished footwear shop-owner and was unable to afford the high cost of heart surgery. Muchhal and her parents agreed to arrange a show and in March , she used a street vendor's cart as a stage for the event and collected ₹51, (US$1,) towards the cost of surgery. The attendant publicity prompted Bangalore-based cardiologist, Devi Prasad Shetty, to operate on Lokesh free of charge.

Muchhal's parents advertised in local newspapers to promote donations toward heart surgery for children like Lokesh. The outcome of this was a list of 33 children in need of heart surgery.^[10]

A series of charity shows were arranged later in that year, from which ₹, (US$7,) were raised. This money was used to provide heart surgery for five children in Bangalore and Bhandari Hospital Indore.

To help Muchhal in her efforts to save lives of children at relatively low cost, T. Choithram Hospital of Indore halved the cost of surgery from ₹80, (US$2,) to ₹40, (US$1,) and one of its surgeons, Dhiraj Gandhi, decided to waive his fee for cases brought in by Muchhal.^[8]

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Since , Muchhal has travelled extensively in India and abroad for her charity show, which is billed in Hindi as "Dil Se Dil Tak" ("From heart to heart") and in English as "Save Little Hearts".

Her younger brother, Palash, performs in the same shows with the intent of raising funds for children who have kidney ailments.^[11] On average, Muchhal sings around 40 songs in each show which includes popular Bollywood songs, Ghazals and Bhajans. Muchhal can sing in 17 different languages which include Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Rajasthani, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Sindhi and Malayalam.^[5]

Palak was also a star at Maheboob College, Secunderabad and sang there.

Both Palak and Palash sang on different occasions. By this they were brought up and built their career.^{[citation needed]}

In , Muchhal raised around one million rupees for the victims of Gujarat earthquake.^[12] In July , Muchhal offered financial assistance through her charity funds to the parents of a two-year-old Pakistani girl who had a hole in the heart.^[13] Muchhal's charity organisation is named "Palak Muchhal Heart Foundation".

As of March ^[update] this foundation had financially assisted children in undergoing heart surgery.^[14] By the end of the year Muchhal had raised ₹ crore (US$,) for this foundation which were used to save the lives of children. To ensure that operations of children do not stop due to lack of money, Bhandari Hospital in Indore has allowed an overdraft of up to one million rupees to Palak Muchhal Heart Foundation.^[5] In Muchhal was one of the five heroic stories broadcast by Star Gold channel as part of its "Rang De Basanti Salaam" (Salute to Color of Sacrifice) initiative.

By June Muchhal had staged 1, charity shows across the world, which had raised ₹ crore (US$,) for Palak Muchhal Heart Foundation. These funds helped to save the lives of children.^[15]

Doctors allow Muchhal to be present in the operating theatre. She has her own surgical gown in the hospital and when the operation takes place she chants JainNavkar Mantra.

Muchhal and her parents do not receive any financial benefits from the charity shows but she receives a doll for every child whose life she helps make better through her efforts.^[5]

–present

In , Muchhal entered Bollywood as a professional playback singer but her efforts to help child heart patients continued.

In August , funds raised by her has helped to save the lives of children. As of October , she with her brother has saved 2, lives of children.^[16] As of March 8, , a total of lives have been saved so far by Palak and her brother Palash.^[17]

Bollywood career

Muchhal released six non-filmi albums prior to her adulthood.

In , when she was nine, her first album "Child For Children" was released by Tips Music.

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In , her second album Palken was released.^[18] In later years she released her other albums Aao Tumhe Chand Per Le Jaaye, Beti Hu Mahakal Ki, and Dil Ke Liye. In , her Jai Jai Dev Ganesh album was released by T-Series. Muchhal moved to Mumbai from Indore in late to find opportunities in Bollywood for her singing career.

She sang her first Bollywood song for the October movie Damadamm!, receiving generally positive reviews. She sang her second song, "Pyaar Ke Silsile", a month later for movie Na Jaane Kabse.^[19] The music in Na Jaane Kabse, and the movie also, received bad reviews.^[20] Muchhal was an acquaintance of actor Salman Khan.

Khan had recommended her name earlier to music director Sajid–Wajid for his film Veer. Khan had also recommended her name to Yash Raj Banner. Following this, Muchhal dubbed the song "Laapata" with KK for Yash Raj banner which was included in blockbuster movie Ek Tha Tiger. The song was filmed on Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif.

The song was a hit and introduced her to Bollywood.^[21]

Later that year in she sang "Nainon Ne Nainon Se" song for the movie From Sydney with Love, receiving favorable reviews. In early , Muchhal sang two songs, composed by Mithoon and Jeet Gannguli, for the movie Aashiqui 2.

Aashiqui 2 music received generally positive reviews,^[22] becoming her second hit after Ek Tha Tiger with the song "Chahun Main Yaa Na" becoming her special signature start to the Bollywood industry.^[7] Muchhal has also sung a song "Tui Borsha Bikeler Dheu" in Bengali for the April Bengali movie Rocky.

After her debut as a singer in Bollywood, she sang several songs of Himesh Reshammiya's composition. In , she sang with Mika Singh for Reshammiya's song "Jumme Ki Raat", which became the biggest hit of the year. Later she also sang the same with Salman Khan. She was also the lead singer in the Salman Khan film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo.^[23][24] In , she lent her voice for "Kaun Tujhe" of Amaal Mallik in M.S.

Dhoni: The Untold Story, one of the top female songs of the year. Most of her songs until date are compositions of Reshammiya, Gannguli, Mithoon and Amaal Mallik. Her Kannada song "Enammi Enammi" with Vijay Prakash was a big chartbuster in

In , the song Naiyo Lagda from the movie Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan was also a big chartbuster of the year Composed by Himesh Reshmmiya is Salman Khan's Film.

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Discography

Hindi film songs

Hindi non-film songs

Songs in other languages

Bengali songs

Telugu songs

Kannada songs

Tamil songs

Marathi songs

Gujarati songs

Year	Film	Song	Composer(s)	Writer(s)	Co-singer(s)
	Polam Pol	"Sapnaao Sacha Thashe Sapnaao Sacha Thashe"	Paresh-Bhavesh	Farhad Bhiwandiwala
	Hungama House	Mithi Mithi Vaato"	Paresh Bhavesh	Iqbal Qureshi	Favad Bhivadivala

Punjabi songs

Bhojpuri songs

Year	Film	Song	Composer(s)	Writer(s)	Co-singer(s)
	Chhath Song	"Jode Jode Phalwa"	Vinay Bihari	Pawan Singh, Palak Muchhal
		"Chhath song(lali suruj dev ke rathwa pe sawar)"
	Dulhe Raja Bhojpuri	Nehiya ke phulwa"	Pyarelal Yadav	Pawan Singh, Palak Muchhal

Urdu songs

Year	Film	Song	Composer(s)	Writer(s)	Co-singer(s)
	The System	Sayyon Re	Shailesh Suvarna	Mohit Pathak
	Zeher-e-Ishq

Personal life

Palak Muchhal married Mithoon, a music composer on 6 November with whom she worked earlier on Aashiqui 2 Album.^[31]

Honours and awards

References

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