Palak Muchhal

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Palak Muchhal
Palak Muchhal filmfare.jpg
Palak at 61st Filmfare Awards in 2016
Background information
Born 21 September 1990 (age 26)
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Origin Indore
Genres Hindustani classical music, Filmi
Occupation(s) singer
Instruments Vocals
Years active 1997present
Palak Muchhal (born 30 March 1992) is an Indian playback singer. She and her you
nger brother Palash Muchhal perform stage shows across India and abroad to raise
funds for the poor children who need financial assistance for the medical treat
ment of heart diseases. As of 8 December 2016, she has raised funds through her
charity shows which has helped to save lives of 1000 children suffering from hea
rt ailments. Muchhal has made her entry in both Guinness Book of World Records a
nd Limca Book of World Records for great achievements in social work. Her work i
s also recognised by the Government of India and other public institutions throu
gh various awards and honours. Muchhal also performs as a playback singer for Bo
llywood films, she has rendered her voice in Hindi films such as Ek Tha Tiger (2
012), Aashiqui 2 (2013), Kick (2014) and Action Jackson (2014) Prem Ratan Dhan P
ayo (2015) M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016) and Kaabil (2017).
Contents
1 Background
2 Charity work
2.1 19972000
2.2 20012010
2.3 2011present
3 Bollywood career
4 Filmography
4.1 Hindi Film songs
4.2 Other languages
5 Honours and awards
6 References
7 External links
Background
Muchhal with brother Palash Muchhal on Raksha Bandhan 2013
Palak Muchhal was born on 30 March 1992[1] into a Maheshwari Marwari family in I
ndore. Her mother, Amita Muchhal, is a homemaker and her father, Rajkumar Muchha
l, serves in a private firm.[2] She has a younger brother, Palash Muchhal.[3] Sh
e did her schooling from Shree Aghrasen Vidyalaya Sneh Nagar, Indore. In May 201
3 Muchhal stated that she is doing her final year of B.Com from a college in Ind
ore.[4]
Muchhal started singing when she was aged four. She has been trained in Indian c
lassical music and can sing in 17 different languages.[2]
Charity work
19972000
At times... [I missed my normal childhood], but then, it dawns on me that even i
f I lose my childhood, it's okay. Playing with friends is not more important tha
n saving a life.[2]
Palak Muchhal (in 2007)
Muchhal became a member of Kalyanji-Anandji Little Star, a group of young singer
s, when she was four years old.[5] During the Kargil War of 1999, when aged seve
n, she spent a week singing at shops in her home city, Indore, to raise funds fo
r the families of deceased Indian soldiers. Her efforts received substantial cov
erage in Indian media and she raised 25,000 (US$810). Later that year, she sang t
o raise funds for victims of the 1999 Odisha cyclone.[6]
Her decision to use her voice to help others was triggered when she saw poor chi
ldren using their clothes to clean train compartments.[2] Around the same time,
teachers at Nidhi Vinay Mandir, an Indore-based school, approached Muchhal and h
er parents with a request for a charity show to raise funds for their pupil, Lok
esh, who was suffering from a congenital heart defect. Lokesh's father was impov
erished footwear shop-owner and was unable to afford the high cost of heart surg
ery. Muchhal and her parents agreed to arrange a show and in March 2000, she use
d a street vendor's cart as a stage for the event and collected 51,000 (US$1,600)
towards the cost of surgery. The attendant publicity prompted Bangalore-based c
ardiologist, Devi Prasad Shetty, to operate on Lokesh free of charge. Muchhal's
parents published advertisements in local newspapers to promote donations toward
heart surgery for children like Lokesh. The outcome of this was a list of 33 ch
ildren in need of heart surgery.[7]
A series of charity shows were arranged later in that year, from which 225,000 (U
S$7,200) were raised. This money was used to provide heart surgery for five chil
dren in Bangalore and Indore hospitals. To help Muchhal in her efforts to save l
ives of children at relatively low cost, T. Choithram Hospital of Indore halved
the cost of surgery from 80,000 (US$2,600) to 40,000 (US$1,300) and one of its sur
geons, Dhiraj Gandhi, decided to waive his fee for cases brought in by Muchhal.[
5]
20012010
Muchhal with Sanjay Khan at 2nd Babasaheb Ambedkar Awards 2010
Since 2000, Muchhal has travelled extensively in India and abroad for her charit
y 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 th
e same shows with the intent of raising funds for children who have kidney ailme
nts.[8] On average, Muchhal sings around 40 songs in each show which includes po
pular Bollywood songs, Ghazals and Bhajans. Muchhal can sing in 17 different lan
guages which includes Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Oriya, Assamese, Rajasthani, Be
ngali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Sindhi and Malayalam.
[2]
Palak was also a star at Maheboob College, Secunderabad she used to sing lots of
songs over there, both Palak & Palash used to sing songs over at different occa
sions, by this they both were bought up & built their career.[citation needed]
In 2001 Muchhal, raised around one million rupees for the victims of 2001 Gujara
t earthquake.[9] In July 2003, Muchhal offered financial assistance through her
charity funds to parents of a two-year-old Pakistani girl who had a hole in the
heart.[10] Muchhal's charity organisation is named as "Palak Muchhal Heart Found
ation". As of March 2006 this foundation had financially assisted 200 children i
n undergoing heart surgery.[11] By the end of the year 2006 Muchhal had raised 1.
2 crore (US$180,000) for this foundation which were used to save lives of 234 ch
ildren. 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.[2] In 2006 Muchhal was one of the five heroi
c stories broadcast by Star Gold channel as part of its "Rang De Basanti Salaam"
(Salute to Color of Sacrifice) initiative. By June 2009 Muchhal had staged 1,46
0 charity shows across the world which had raised 1.71 crore (US$250,000) for Pal
ak Muchhal Heart Foundation. These funds helped to save lives of 338 children.[1
2]
Doctors allow Muchhal to be present in the operating theatre. She has her own su
rgical gown in the hospital and when the operation takes place she chants from t
he Bhagavad Gita. 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 he
lps make better through her efforts.[2]
2011present
Palak Muchhal at Policegiri charity screening in July 2013
In 2011, Muchhal entered in Bollywood as professional playback singer but her ef
forts to help child heart patients continued. As of August 2015, funds raised by
her has helped to save lives of 800 children.[13]
Bollywood career
Muchhal wanted to be Bollywood Playback Singer since childhood. She released six
non-filmi albums during her childhood and teenage days. In 2001, when she was n
ine, her first album "Child For Children" was released by Tips Music. In 2003, h
er second album Palken was released.[14] In later years she released her other a
lbums Aao Tumhe Chand Per Le Jaaye, Beti Hu Mahakal Ki, and Dil Ke Liye. In 2011
, her Jai Jai Dev Ganesh album was released by T-Series. Muchhal moved to Mumbai
from Indore in late 2006 to find opportunities in Bollywood for her singing car
eer. She sang her first Bollywood song for the October 2011 movie Damadamm!, rec
eiving generally positive reviews. She sang her second song, "Pyaar Ke Silsile",
a month later for movie Na Jaane Kabse.[15] The music in Na Jaane Kabse, and th
e movie also, received bad reviews.[16] Muchhal was an acquaintance of actor Sal
man Khan. Khan had recommended her name earlier to music director Sajid-Wajid fo
r his film Veer. Khan had also recommended her name to Yash Raj Banner. Followin
g this, Muchhal dubbed song "Laapata" with KK for Yash Raj banner which was incl
uded in 2012 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.[17]
Later that year in 2012 she sang "Nainon Ne Nainon Se" song for the movie From S
ydney with Love, receiving favorable reviews. In early 2013, Muchhal sang two so
ngs, composed by Mithoon and Jeet Gannguli, for the movie Aashiqui 2. Aashiqui 2
music received generally positive reviews,[18] becoming her second hit after Ek
Tha Tiger.[4] Muchhal has also sung a song "Tui Borsha Bikeler Dheu" in Bengali
for the April 2013 Bengali movie Rocky,. After her debut as a singer in Bollywo
od, she sang many songs in almost every film of Himesh Reshammiya's composition.
In 2014 she sang with Mika Singh for Reshammiya's song "Jumme Ki Raat",which we
nt biggest hit of the year.[citation needed] Later she also sang the same with S
alman Khan. She was also the lead singer in the 2015 Salman Khan film Prem Ratan
Dhan Payo.[19][20] Muchhal became a sensation with her songs in Aashiqui 2. She
recorded more than hundred fifty songs after that for Hindi films.[citation nee
ded]
Filmography
Hindi Film songs
Key Songs from the films that have not yet been released Denotes films th
at have not yet been released
Year Album Song(s) Composer(s) Co-singer(s)
2011 Damadamm! "Damadamm" Himesh Reshammiya
Na Jaane Kabse "Pyaar Ke Silsile" Jatin Pandit
2012 Ek Tha Tiger "Laapata" Sohail Sen KK
From Sydney with Love "Nainon Ne Nainon Se" Sohail Sen
2013 Aashiqui 2 "Meri Aashiqui" Mithoon Arijit Singh
"Chaahun Main Ya Naa" Jeet Gannguli
Policegiri "Chura Ke Le Ja" Himesh Reshammiya Yashraj Kapil
"Tirat Meri Tu" Vinit Singh, Shabab Sabri
Zanjeer "Lamhaa Tera Mera" Chirantan Bhatt Wajhi Farooki
Mickey Virus "Aankhon Hi Aankhon Ne"
(Duet Version) Hanif Shaikh Mohit Chauhan
"Aankhon Hi Aankhon Ne"
(Female Version)
R... Rajkumar "Dhokha Dhadi" Pritam Chakraborty Arijit Singh
Jai Ho "Photocopy" Sajid-Wajid Himesh Reshammiya, Keerthi Sagathia
"Photocopy"
(Remix)
2014 Karle Pyaar Karle "Karle Pyaar Karle" Meet Bros Anjjan
Benny Dayal, Monali Thakur
"Teri Saanson Mein" Rashid Khan Arijit Singh
Dishkiyaoon "Tu Hi Hai Aashiqui"
(Duet Version) Palash Muchhal
"Nachle Tu" Mika Singh
The Xpose "Ice Cream Khaungi" Himesh Reshammiya Himesh Reshammiy
a, Yo Yo Honey Singh
Humshakals "Piya Ke Bazaar" Himesh Reshammiya, Shalmali Kholgade
"Khol De Dil Ki Khidki" Mika Singh
Kick "Jumme Ki Raat"
"Jumme Ki Raat"
(Version 2) Salman Khan
Action Jackson "Dhoom Dham" Ankit Tiwari
2015 Ishq Ke Parindey "Tumse Mil Ke" Vijay Vermaa Javed Ali
"Rab se Maangi"
Gabbar is Back "Teri Meri Kahaani" Chirantan Bhatt Arijit Singh
Hero "O Khuda" Amaal Mallik
Khamoshiyan "Baatein Yeh Kabhi Naa"
(Female Version) Jeet Gannguli
Mr. X "Teri Khushboo"
(Female Version)
Baahubali: The Beginning "Panchhi Bole" M. M. Keeravani
Thoda Lutf Thoda Ishq "Pyaar Hua Jab Tujhse"
(Female Version) Vikram Khajuria
Uvaa "Ishq Fobiya" Rashid Khan Mohammed Irfan, Bhanu Pratap Singh
Luckhnowi Ishq "Bomb Kudi" Raaj Aashoo Pratibha Baghel
"Bomb Kudi"
(Featuring Labh Janjua) Labh Janjua, Amit Mishra, Pratibha Baghel
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo "Prem Ratan Dhan Payo" Himesh Reshammiya
"Jab Tum Chaho" Mohammed Irfan, Darshan Raval
"Aaj Unse Kehna Hai" Shaan, Aishwarya Majumdar
2016 Sanam Teri Kasam "Sanam Teri Kasam" Ankit Tiwari
"Sanam Teri Kasam"
(Reprise Version) Mohammed Irfan
Ishq Forever "Ishq Forever" Nadeem Saifi Jubin Nautiyal
"Bilkul Socha Na Tha" Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Sanam Re "Hua Hain Aaj Pehli Baar" Amaal Mallik Armaan Malik, Am
aal Mallik
Jab Tum Kaho "Ab Tu Hi Tu" Anuj Garg Shafqat Amanat Ali
Awesome Mausam "Tere Naina Mere Naino Se" Komal Aran Atariya Shaan
Ki & Ka "Kabir Most Wanted Munda" Meet Bros Meet Bros, Arjun
Kapoor
Traffic "Keh Bhi De" Mithoon Benny Dayal
"Door Na Jaa"
Do Lafzon Ki Kahani "Jeena Marna"
(Female Version) Babli Haque
Luv U Alia "Sapne" Jassie Gift Ashwin Bhandare
Rustom "Dekha Hazaro Dafaa" Jeet Gannguli Arijit Singh
Raaz Reboot "Hummein Tummein Jo Tha" Papon
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story "Kaun Tujhe" Amaal Mallik
Mmirsa "Naio Jeena Tere Bina" Meet Bros Anjjan Mohit Chauhan
2017 Kaabil "Kaabil Hoon" Rajesh Roshan Jubin Nautiyal
Kabhi Yaadon Mein "Kabhi Yaadon Mein" Abhijit Vaghani(Recreated)
Arijit Singh
Other languages
Key Songs from the films that have not yet been released Denotes films th
at have not yet been released
Year Album Song Language Composer(s) Co-singer(s)
2013 Rocky "Tui Borsha Bikeler Dheu" Bengali Jeet Gannguli
Shaan
Khiladi "O Humsafar" Shree Pritam
2014 Love is Poison "Dyaniyaagiruve" Kannada Sai Kiran
"Yaako Kaane Dina" Loveguru Rajesh
Paru Wife of Devadas "Kannalle Neenu" Arjun Janya Sonu Nigam
Adyaksha "Sum Sumne"
2015 Muddu Manase "Aago Heego" Vineeth Raj Menon
2016 M.S. Dhoni : The Untold Story "Unnaal unnaal un ninaival" Tamil
Amaal Mallik
Ki Kore Toke Bolbo "Ki Kore Bolbo Tomay" Bengali Jeet Gannguli
Papon
Prem Ki Bujhini "Saraswati" Savvy
Honours and awards
Silver Medal for the year 2000 by Vice-President of India Krishan Kant as Na
tional Child Award For Exceptional Achievement (Rashtriya Bal Puraskar).[21]
Winner of Sony Entertainment Television (India) TV show Cadbury Bournvita Co
nfidence Champions (2006)[1]
Muchhal has made her entry in both Guinness Book of World Records and Limca
Book of World Records for great achievements in social work.[22]
CBSE and Maharashtra board has included Palak's achievement in text book of
seventh standard moral science[12]
Got BIG Star Entertainment Awards for BIG Star Most Entertaining Singer (Fem
ale) for the title song of the movie Prem Ratan Dhan Payo[23]
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