Siddhartha Khosla
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226 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Yeah. It was me sending music to Koch and to Dan for approval. Koch had set a palette already and had some themes and I was just integrating them into the show because they were good. I was like, I'll do my own thing in places, but that's how that all started. And then I had so much fear that I couldn't score the picture. I had never done it before.
And Dan was always like, he would like the melodies I would write. And he would say, bring that melody back here, bring that melody back here. And he'd point to the areas to do it. And he taught me to write thematically, Dan. In that process, Dan was like, it's okay to have a singular theme, a singular melody that you just go back to over and over and over again. It's okay.
I mean, that's the John Williams approach. That's Spielberg. That's how they worked their whole career.
No, no, no, no.
That's one thing he's not good at.
He has feel. What Dan offers and what he's done, what he did phenomenally well on this show and others, but this one particularly ours, this is us, is that he's got great feel, great emotional feel. He knows if something moves him in a certain spot, it's going to move him. millions of other people too. He has that thing in him, that's the magic.
Which is why when you're watching End of the Pilot, This Is Us or anything, your hair raises and you're like, oh, holy shit, what just happened? He experiences these things himself when he's watching and working in the edit bay. And when something hits him, he knows it's going to hit other people. It's a very cool thing. And so it's like, he's got great feel. But even back then, He had great feel.
Always had it. So we worked on that show together.
Okay, continue. And then I'm like, all right, see, I'm not supposed to be doing this.
13, 14, 2013, 2014.
And so I went back and started making another record. called Aerogram, which is about my family. That's about my whole family journey, my parents' journey from India to the United States in the late 70s, their experience as immigrants. I wrote an entire concept album about that. And that was my band Goldspot. So I went back to doing a little bit of that. And then in that time,
I started getting offers to score other people's things.
Probably because they're like, you work with Dan Fogelman, you must know what you're doing. That's kind of what would happen.
It was like, even though I had done the show, and it was his first show, The Neighbors, and it got canceled, there was some cred that was earned by just being in the world that someone of his caliber had decided to hire me, not knowing that it was really nepotism. that brought us together. So what else did you do in between? I just did some indie films.
I ended up doing this show called The Royals with Elizabeth Hurley on E. It's like a soapy drama. Did you feel like you had a groove at this point in time or are you still sort of honing a groove? Honing a groove. Honing a groove. Because I still didn't know, even to this day, I still don't know what I'm doing when I get on a project. I always feel like I'm... just flying by the seat of my pants.
It always feels that way to me. It did on this show a lot. And I think that's sort of the, you know, I don't feel like I'm ever at that point where I know exactly what I'm doing until I'm multiple seasons into something. But I had these gigs and I was doing these other shows and then Dan would call me to do his pilots and new shows that would come up.
Yeah, I was gonna ask. And we kept on working together in that capacity.
2016.
Yeah, beginning of 2016. Like in February?
I think it was probably February or March he called me and he goes, I have this new show. It's called The Untitled Fogelman Project or whatever. He's like, I'm just going to send you the script. And he's like, let me know what you think of it. And he's like, we have my directors from Crazy Stupid Love, Glenn and John, are coming on board.
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