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 Carnatic 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.