Shishir Kurup is an actor who appeared on Lost only once as Donovan, Desmond's friend in "Flashes Before Your Eyes". The interview was conducted over email on August 31, 2008. I had not seen Lost before I was cast. It was during a period that I was only watching HBO episodics and it somehow slipped past me. I then of course heard of the phenomenon that was Lost but had missed the boat. Funnily enough though I was cast in two shows by NBC that were created as a response to Lost. Surface, of which I was in the Pilot and the next five episodes before being killed off (character was named Krishna Singh) and then Heroes where I did the pilot and two more episodes (Nirad). After I shot my Lost episode (which was the 3rd or 5th of the second half of last season) I watched the ones leading up to m