Siddhartha Khosla
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226 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Siddhartha Khosla’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I went off, I had been in my band. Dan at this point had written Cars.
He wrote Cars when he was 25. Yeah, he'd written Cars when he was like in his mid, late 20s.
What a gig. And he crushed that one, huh? And so Cars, and then he wrote Crazy Stupid Love that was directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who did our pilot and several other episodes. So he was a really established screenwriter at this point. Got it. Tangled came in somewhere?
Tangled was in there by that point. So many. Fred Claus. I mean, he'd done so many films and TV. He loves Fred Claus.
Fred Claus, yeah. I did that on purpose. The pinnacle, Fred Claus. Fred Claus.
He's doing great. And Dan had this show called The Neighbors on ABC.
And they were looking for a new composer for their second season. And he called me. Interesting enough, I had just gone to like a pen reunion and I was on a train leaving Philly. And I get a call from Dan and he was like, will you come in and score season two of my show? And I was like, nah, dude. I was like, I don't know how to score for TV and film. I can't do this.
So I said to him, and he was like, he's like, I really want you to do it. And I was like, here's my guitar player's number. because this is what he wants to do. He's been trying to break into this. The band is like, I don't know what we're doing next, just call him. Dan's like, I really want you to think about it. He goes, I really believe that you can do this. He goes, I know your melodies.
from band world and they connect to me. I feel the emotionality in them. And he's like, I think you can bring that skill here. And I'd never written anything for TV or film. I didn't go to school for any of it. I was in a band. So all my only experience was acapella group and band, right? That was really it. And then, you know, arranging for my acapella group, like writing for the voice part.
So I never really had I didn't have the confidence I could do this, honestly. And Dan was like, I really want you to do this. So I get off the phone with him and I'm on the phone with my manager. And I'm like, Dan Fogelman called me, friend of mine from college. And he wants me to score season two of his show. And I was like, I told him, I was like, I wanna make records. I can't do this.
And he goes, pick up the phone. This is Dan Fogelman who called you. He goes, you know who that is? I was like, yeah. I was like, we used to get drunk together.
piss on walls when we were freshmen in college okay um and and can i can say that on this yeah okay so i'm sorry if anything feels like you know please we were like yeah we were 17 um it's gonna get me and dan canceled um yeah that was us hold on we've all pissed off yeah it really is that that was us mandy come on This will really become the That Was Us podcast. We're good. It's fine. Okay.
So he's like, Dan Fogelman called you to do something. He's like, that guy is a beast. And he's like, you should be open to maybe having your career go in a different direction. I think at that point I was just pretty green. I was like, no, I'm going to make another record. This is what I'm going to do. Not thinking about, I don't know, the fact that I was about to get married, future, family.
What did it mean for me to really be in a band? How could I really do that with all of it too? And so then I called Dan back and I was like, okay, I'll do it. And he was so psyched. And then we ended up doing that show together. And then the show got canceled the year I worked on it.
I think what it was, and it's funny, because some of the things that I learned in that process, I still do to this day, and it all comes from fear of being fired off the job, not being good enough for the job. And I remember why- That's how I approach my acting. I watched season one of that show, The Neighbors, and I just went and did what I could, only thing I knew how to do was write music.
And I just wrote, not to any picture. I just wrote wild pieces that were like six, seven minutes long. And I'm riffing on like melodies and themes that felt like the show made me feel something. And I just recorded all this stuff. It was also orchestral. And I'd never really dabbled in orchestra before.
And so we have software that allows us to like find a violin or in the most lay way to say, you know, the MIDI software that I can play an orchestra with my hands basically, right? And I would send these pieces into Dan and the director of that show, main director of that show was Chris Koch, right? And Chris Koch was also the composer of the show season one.
Yes. Isn't that crazy?
Chris Koch composed the score for The Neighbors season one. Wow. Chris Koch, for anyone that doesn't know, directed some of the seminal This Is Us episodes.
He's a great musician too.
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