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Aditya "Adi" Lodha and Dishaan Gidwani weren't at Mumbai's Antisocial club looking to start a band. Neither of them, by their own account, was even the type to go out much. "Our eyes met across the room, and that's when we just instantly knew," Dishaan has said of the night that started it. Adi was a rapper who'd already released three solo EPs and run his own label. Dishaan was an indie singer-songwriter with formal music training. Neither one, on his own, could make the sound they ended up making together.
Two years and countless seven-hour studio days later, that meeting became "Good Things Take Time" — a 10-track debut album — and a Lollapalooza India 2025 set where the crowd sang loud enough that, as Rolling Stone India reported, the duo could barely hear themselves onstage. This is how two strangers at a club built a career neither of them could have built alone.
Key takeaways
- Adi (Aditya Lodha) and Dishaan (Dishaan Gidwani) met unexpectedly at Antisocial, a Mumbai club, before either had any plan to form a duo
- Adi had already released three solo EPs and performed at Bacardi NH7 Weekender in 2022; Dishaan started guitar at 11 and had a background as a formally trained indie singer-songwriter
- Their debut album, "Good Things Take Time," took roughly two years to make, including intensive writing stints in Lonavala and Goa
- They opened their album tour back at Antisocial — the club where they met — in February 2025, then made their festival debut at Lollapalooza India weeks later
- They were named to Rolling Stone India's Future 25 in 2025, and both are already developing distinct solo follow-up projects alongside the duo
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Before They Were a Duo
Adi and Dishaan each spent years building separate musical identities before they ever met. Adi picked up drums at 12 and started rapping at school talent shows; after high school he took a gap year, worked at an advertising company, then went to study music before deciding, in his words, that "it was time to go all in." He released three solo EPs — "Testing Waters" (2019), "Old Me Knew You" (2020), and "PIGEONHOLED" (2020) — and singles including "Back in Town" and "6AM in Bombay" (2022), and made his solo festival debut at Bacardi NH7 Weekender in Pune that same year. He also co-founded "The Having Said That Show," a YouTube podcast, with Jehangir Havaldar in July 2022, and runs his own independent label, Chump Change Records.
Dishaan started guitar at 11 and studied music formally, building a career as an indie singer-songwriter — a markedly different lane from Adi's straight rap background. "Adi was doing strictly rap and I was doing indie singer-songwriter stuff," Dishaan has said. "Coming together meant finding a new sound that neither of us could achieve alone."
The Meeting at Antisocial
Neither of them planned the collaboration. It happened the way most real creative partnerships do — by accident, at a club, on a night neither expected to matter. "He was referencing stuff that he had heard, but couldn't do, and I was referencing stuff that I had heard, but I couldn't do," Adi has said of why it worked. Asked for the short version of the story, his answer was characteristically unadorned: "That's it, that's the story."
Adi and Dishaan, on making their breakout single "MATH": "There was zero thought process, we were acting from pure instinct." (Rolling Stone India, May 2024)
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Two Years, Seven Hours a Day: Making "Good Things Take Time"
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"Good Things Take Time" wasn't a quick project. Adi and Dishaan spent roughly two years on the album, often working seven or eight hours a day together — a pace intense enough that, as Adi put it, "that level of honesty became the foundation of the friendship. Without it, this album would not exist." The timeline stretched well past their original plan. "We thought it would take eight months, but it stretched much longer," Adi has said. "We were meticulous, redoing tracks like 'Walk' multiple times. Eventually, we had to set a deadline and let go."
Much of that work happened away from Mumbai entirely, in intensive stints in Lonavala and Goa. The album's ten tracks — including "Midnight," "Say," "Missed Calls," "IDK" (featuring Mary Ann Alexander), "MATH," "All Falls Down," "Look At Me," "While Away," "Bouquet," and "Walk" — reflect that shared-experience writing process directly. On "Remind Me," Dishaan wrote a nostalgic hook about falling in love while Adi was going through a breakup at the same time. "It was cool to capture both on the same track," Dishaan has said.
The Album as a Night Out
The duo has been explicit about the concept behind the record. "We wanted to create a soundtrack that follows you through your night out — from the pregame to the club," they've said. Dishaan is equally direct about how it's meant to be heard: "Ideally, put it on at a house party or when you're with people you love hanging out with. This is not the music you listen to alone before bed. It is for raging, moving and having the best time of your life."
That same candid, unpolished spirit shaped the video for "While Away," shot in a single day from morning to evening. "It was the first time either of us included our girlfriends in a video," Adi recalled, "but it felt right because the song is about falling in love out of the blue." The video closes on a live show — a deliberate bookend to the album's rollout.
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From Antisocial to Lollapalooza
The album tour opened on February 14, 2025 — at Antisocial, the same Mumbai club where Adi and Dishaan had met. From there it moved through Gurgaon, Goa, Bengaluru, Delhi, and back to Mumbai. Weeks later, on March 8–9, 2025, the duo made their festival debut at Lollapalooza India at Mahalaxmi Racecourse — a fast jump from club tour to major festival stage for an act that had only released its debut single as a duo the previous year.
The Lollapalooza set became one of their most-repeated career moments for a specific reason: the crowd sang back loud enough that the duo could barely hear their own performance. It's the kind of validation that doesn't show up in a streaming dashboard, and it landed the same year they were named to Rolling Stone India's Future 25.
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What's Next
Both Adi and Dishaan are already working on distinct solo follow-ups alongside the duo. Dishaan describes his solo direction as "softer, more band-like, simulating the feeling of four people playing together. I want it to feel alive." Adi is pursuing a bigger, more ambitious sound: "a big band with a choir," a shift he credits directly to working with Dishaan. "The lean into melody and singing has definitely come after this album and working with Dishaan," he's said.
What Other Artists Can Take From Adi & Dishaan's Approach
A collaboration works best when it fills a real gap, not just adds a name. Adi's rap background and Dishaan's singer-songwriter training didn't overlap — each could do what the other couldn't, which is exactly why the partnership produced something neither could have made solo.
Give a long project a deadline, even if the honest timeline runs longer. Adi has been candid that the album took far longer than planned; setting a hard cutoff, even reluctantly, was what actually got it released.
A specific concept beats a generic one. "Good Things Take Time" wasn't built to be background listening — it was built explicitly as a night-out soundtrack, and that clarity of purpose shaped everything from the tracklist to the videos.
Close a loop when you can. Opening their album tour at the club where they met wasn't just sentimental — it turned their origin story into a marketable, memorable moment for press and fans alike.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who are Adi & Dishaan?
Adi & Dishaan are a Mumbai-based music duo — Aditya "Adi" Lodha, a rapper and podcaster, and Dishaan Gidwani, a singer-producer — who met unexpectedly at the Mumbai club Antisocial. They released their debut album, "Good Things Take Time," in 2025, made their festival debut at Lollapalooza India that year, and were named to Rolling Stone India's Future 25.
What is "Good Things Take Time" about?
"Good Things Take Time" is Adi & Dishaan's 10-track debut album, built as a soundtrack for a night out — from pregame to the club. It draws directly on their shared lived experiences, including friendships, heartbreak, and falling in love, written over roughly two years of daily studio sessions and writing retreats in Lonavala and Goa.
Had Adi or Dishaan released music before forming the duo?
Yes. Adi released three solo EPs — "Testing Waters" (2019), "Old Me Knew You" (2020), and "PIGEONHOLED" (2020) — plus singles and a Bacardi NH7 Weekender performance in 2022, and runs his own label, Chump Change Records. Dishaan built a career as a formally trained indie singer-songwriter before the two met.
Did Adi & Dishaan perform at Lollapalooza India?
Yes. They made their festival debut at Lollapalooza India on March 8–9, 2025, at Mahalaxmi Racecourse in Mumbai — a performance notable for a crowd that sang along loud enough to drown out the duo onstage.
Are Adi and Dishaan working on solo projects too?
Yes. Dishaan has described a solo project with a "softer, more band-like" sound, while Adi is developing music built around "a big band with a choir" — both citing their collaboration with each other as a direct influence on where their individual sounds are headed next.
Adi & Dishaan's career so far is proof that the best creative partnerships aren't always planned. A rapper and a singer-songwriter who happened to lock eyes across a Mumbai club spent two years building something neither could have made alone, then closed the loop by opening their tour at the exact spot they met. Good things, as the album title insists, really do take time — but only if two people are willing to put in seven-hour days to get there.
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