Palak Muchhal (born 30 March 1992) is an Indian 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.
Muchhal also performs as a playback singer for Bollywood films and other Indian film industries.
Palak Muchhal was born on 30 March 1992 into a Maheshwari Marwari family in Indore.
Her mother, Amita Muchhal, is a homemaker and her father, Rajkumar Muchhal, works for a private firm.
She has a younger brother, Palash Muchhal.
She did her schooling from Queens College Indore.
1999
During the Kargil War of 1999, 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.
Her efforts received substantial coverage in Indian media and she raised ₹25,000 (US$810).
Later that year, she sang to raise funds for victims of the 1999 Odisha cyclone.
Her decision to use her voice to help others was triggered when she saw poor children using their clothes to clean train compartments.
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.
2000
Muchhal and her parents agreed to arrange a show and in March 2000, she used 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 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.
A series of charity shows were arranged later in that year, from which ₹225,000 (US$7,200) 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 ₹80,000 (US$2,600) to ₹40,000 (US$1,300) and one of its surgeons, Dhiraj Gandhi, decided to waive his fee for cases brought in by Muchhal.
Since 2000, 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.
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.
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.
2001
In 2001, Muchhal raised around one million rupees for the victims of 2001 Gujarat earthquake.
2003
In July 2003, 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.
Muchhal's charity organisation is named "Palak Muchhal Heart Foundation".
this foundation had financially assisted 200 children in undergoing heart surgery.
2006
By the end of the year 2006 Muchhal had raised inr 12000000 for this foundation which were used to save the lives of 234 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.
In 2006 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.
2009
By June 2009 Muchhal had staged 1,460 charity shows across the world, which had raised inr 17100000 for Palak Muchhal Heart Foundation.
2012
She has rendered her voice in Hindi films such as Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Aashiqui 2 (2013), Kick (2014) and Action Jackson (2014) Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015) M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016) Kaabil (2017), Baaghi 2 (2018) and Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas (2019).
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.
On 6 November 2022, she married music composer Mithoon, with whom she had earlier worked on the soundtrack of Aashiqui 2.
2013
In May 2013 Muchhal stated that she was doing her final year of B.Com from a college in Indore.
Muchhal became a member of Kalyanji-Anandji Little Star, a group of young singers, when she was four years old.
