Quoting Harris Jayaraj from a recent Hindu interview. He has good things to say about ARR :)
Working for A. R. Rahman... "I have worked for many composers including Rahman. Most of them would give us the notation... you had to play it ... get your payment and come away. There was nothing more. But Rahman would not expect us to stick to the notes given... he would allow us to improvise and if he liked it he would ask us to play it our way. So I think in a way it was probably working for Rahman that made me realise that there was a composer in me." -- Best Regards, Prakash Srinivasan +91-9880423119