Karthi's upcoming Tamil-Telugu bilingual Thozha is almost complete and the film is likely to be wrapped up in February. Titled as Oopiri in Telugu, the film was offered to Jr. NTR initially, however, due to dates clash the makers approached Karthi for the role. And, he bagged it into his kitty.

Inspired from the French film The Intouchables, the film stars Nagarjuna as a quadriplegic patient and Karthi as the caretaker. Tamannaah plays the leading lady in this emotional drama directed by Vamsi Paidipally and produced by PVP Cinemas.