After the end of "Indian Idol 2", Karunya was called for an audition by Vidhu Vinod Chopra for Lage Raho Munnabhai. He began his playback career by singing for Sanjay Dutt. Then he sang a song in Jai Santoshi Maa for Anu Malik. After that, he went to Hyderabad to meet members of the Telugu film industry who rooted for him during ""Indian Idol"". In that series of meetings when he met Jr. NTR , he was offered his first Telugu hit "Ekaantangaa unna" by NTR himself, a song composed by Mani Sharma, for the film "Ashok". After this song, he went on to record songs like "Orugalluke Pilla" from the film Sainikudu, "Enduko" from Chirutha, "123 Nenoka Kantri" from "Kantri", "Ammayi Kitiki Pakkana" from Maryada Ramanna, "Om Namo Siva Rudraya" from Khaleja, "Oola Oolala Ala" from Orange, "Vayyarala jabilli" from Pawan Kalyan's Teenmar, "Andam andam" from Vetadu-Ventadu, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, starring Vishal (actor), "Meher meher" from "D for Dopidi", "Suvvi Suvvaalamma" from the movie Loafer, two songs for "It's my lovestory" and many more.