Perhaps best known worldwide for his Academy Award-winning Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, A.R. Rahman has been elevating Indian film music to high art since 1992. He frequently layers acoustic and electronic instrumentation in witty ways, making folk music sound futuristic with sampling and rap on tracks like the M.I.A. collaboration “O… Saya”. His global perspective and spiritual inclinations inspired the Turkish-Islamic sound of “Mayya Mayya”. There’s no such thing as a typical Rahman track; his curious spirit informs everything he does, as this Tamil-centric playlist demonstrates.