“There’s one thing you have to remember about Rahman—he’s a doer,’ says Mani Ratnam, the director of Roja, the first feature film AR ever composed for, and whose every film AR has made music for since. ‘A lot of us talk about our plans, but he actually acts. He’ll tell you he wants to do something and, a few months later, he’s actually done it. That’s an incredible thing about him. He doesn’t just talk.”