So Mindy kind of broke me into television.ĭEADLINE: Is there something in those last two decades that you wish would’ve gotten more attention than it did?ĪMBUDKAR: The one thing that I wish more people could have seen because I think it’s really, really good is Brittany Runs a Marathon. Then Mindy Kaling sees Pitch Perfect and goes, ‘Oh, I have an idea for a rapping brother.’ I am flabbergasted. I end up being featured on every song as a vocalist, which for a first movie or a second movie is pretty freaking cool. I joined Freestyle Love Supreme, and then I remember we were in Seattle doing a show at some festival, and I get a call from my new agent at Gersh about Pitch Perfect. The amount of Tonys, Grammys, Oscar nominations and Emmys that are in that group! So we’ve all just stayed together. Little do I know that I’m walking into a room with Tommy Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson. The Hip Hop Theater Festival was just a bunch of broke dudes doing comedy raps. I would get such a rush off of that, and the audience would love it.ĪMBUDKAR: My first real job was assistant directing a play at the Hip Hop Theater Festival in D.C. No professor was gonna start yelling at me if I started adding monologues on stage, which I would do frequently because I would get caught up in the moment. I could go on stage and do a Shakespeare play and start improvising. I feel like I got confidence and joy at Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland. Dre record, the new Snoop Dogg, Tupac or Notorious B.I.G., basically what is now considered the second golden age of rap.

And then, when I was nine or 10, we would sneak out and listen to the new Dr. I was the only kid who was making up songs on the spot and doing voices and making people laugh. We had all the records, and we watched a ton of Bollywood movies, which are very over the top but beautifully made. I had a proclivity at home for making my family laugh, and my mom and dad were very keen on pop culture. So a lot of people didn’t know what we even were. I think being South Asian in Maryland in the ’80s was still very much a new ethnicity to America. UTKARSH AMBUDKAR: I wasn’t like a tough kid, so I wasn’t gonna scare anybody around me. 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & StreamingĭEADLINE: What happened while growing up in Baltimore that made you want to devote your life to acting and rap?

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