two men heroes both coactors who respect each others work talk about how it was working together in the tamiltelugu bilingual thozha which releases todayhow did you both come together for thozha nagarjuna the film picked us i had seen the original and thought itd be nice if i could do it around four years agovamsi and pvp then came to me and i accepted the story was adapted and then we began to think of who to play the friends role as im playing the quadriplegic karthis name came up he is a brilliant actor but we werent sure hed accept it as it is a multistarrer many of us have apprehensions about multistarrers you see moreover we are from two different languageskarthi im glad i could be a part of the film i heard the story of our version and was thrilled when i knew that nag sir is also a part of it my doubts about doing a multistarrer vanished at that moment as the movie was about bonding and not competing a nice way of portraying human sharing so my decision was a complete yes yesdid the language present a barrier n fortunately it is an urban film there arent many cultural differences the only obstacle was about me speaking in tamil this guy knows telugu points to karthi and laughsk my character speaks too much in the film and i didnt want to waste his time to rehearse and alln he had lot of dialogues whereas mine is a subtle character his role is that of an extrovert who speaks continuously k i was worried about being able to justify speaking so much in another languagen fortunately he has already been accepted in telugu he has done three or four films in telugu rightk three filmsn its a blessing so you dont have to worry about that partwe heard you had to act with your hands tied to the wheelchair n yes while talking all of us use our body hands etc so emoting without moving was difficult also im very used to using my hands it was difficult in the first schedule but the director asked me not to worry and was ready for any number of takes i remember we took 20 takes for a couple of shots even i felt insecure then laughs there was a scene where i laugh out loud and my chest would shake that was not supposed to happen also after a while you get sick of sitting down you just want to get up and get out i had the same feelingso did you do any homework n not really other than the original film we definitely didnt want to make into a we didnt want to go into the art genre because thozha is a very feelgood film he never says oh i am sitting on a wheelchair its full of fun and always entertaining in fact after the first five minutes you