Yash's Toxic is one of the most anticipated films of 2026, the teaser of which was released on Thursday, coinciding with Yash's 40th birthday. The introductory teaser saw Yash's character, Raya, smoking a cigar and featuring gun-blazing action sequences.
Apart from Yash's action-packed moments, the teaser also had an intimate love-making scene in a car, which garnered headlines over the many other positive aspects shown in the teaser.
On Friday, filmmaker Geetu Mohandas took a subtle dig at trolls as she shared a reel on her Instagram story. The caption on the video read, "Chilling while people figure out female pleasure, consent, women playing systems, etc etc..."
The Instagram story shared by Mohandas has also become a topic of discussion on Reddit.
A netizen commented, "Yes Geetu, you've shot it in such a non-titillating way where the woman doesn't exist merely to pleasure the man. The woman wasn't used as an object to facilitate the hero's mass entry at all. Yes, the man lasting 30 seconds in slo-mo while engaging in a violent sexual intercourse is such deep representation of female sexuality."
Another Reddit user wrote, "I don't know about others, but my opinion is that particularly in this teaser there was no point in showing that. There's no context to it—it's just for shock value. Accept it or not, female pleasure and consent are important and need to be discussed, but with context in a movie, not like this where it's used by the male lead to aura farm."
Toxic is slated to release on March 19, 2026. The film will clash at the box office with Dhurandhar 2, making it interesting to see which film makes a mark commercially. Apart from Yash, Toxic also stars Nayanthara, Kiara Advani, Huma Qureshi, Tara Sutaria, Rukmini Vasanth, and Akshay Oberoi.
