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 Mahalakshmi
Iyer
is an Indian playback singer, best known for
her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung over
thousand songs in many Indian languages
including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi,
Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese and Malayalam
Mahalakshmi comes from a
musical family. Her mother is a Karnataka
classical singer. She made her singing debut
with A R Rahman in
Mani Ratnam's
Dil Se
(1998). She also recorded for the movie
Dus,
which was Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's debut as
music directors. Later, she went on to work
frequently with them.
Since then she has sung
over thousand songs in films,
Serials jingles and
original albums. She was part of several
successful soundtracks such as
Mission Kashmir,
Yaadein
and
Saathiya
and worked with some of the biggest music
composers like A R Rahman, Anu Malik,
Jatin-Lalit and more.
She has also sung for
all of the Yahs Raj Productions' biggest
hits like
Dhoom 2,
Bunty Aur Babli,
Salaam Namaste
and
Fanaa
and most recent successful albums like
Ta Ra Rum Pum
and
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.
During her career, she
was appreciated for her performances in
songs like Kabhi Sham Dhale from
Sur: The Melody of Life (2002), Har
Taraf
from
Rishtey
(2002) and for hit songs like Chup Chup Ke
from Bunty Aur Babli (2005), Aaj Ki
Raat from
Don
(2006) and Bol Na Halke Halke from
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.
Today she is considered to be one of India's
most popular playback singers, along with
other singers like Sunidhi Chauhan and
Shreya Ghoshal.
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