Yash and Kiara Advani have finally brought the simmering world of Toxic into sharp focus, and the film’s first video song is making sure the wait feels worth it. The newly released Tabaahi video offers the first extended glimpse of the pair together on screen, framing their chemistry through stolen embraces, kisses, and a moody, large-scale visual design that introduces romance as danger.
The track arrived after the audio had already been released earlier, but the video changes the conversation around Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups. More than just a song drop, Tabaahi works as an atmospheric entry point into the film’s emotional core, with Yash and Kiara placed at the centre of a forbidden love story.
Tabaahi Brings The Film’S Dangerous Love Story Into View
The video opens with a Rumi line, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I’ll meet you there,” setting the tone for a romance steeped in longing and risk. From there, Tabaahi leans fully into intensity, pairing guitar-driven arrangements with an orchestral sweep. The visuals also include brief glimpses of Nayanthara and Tara Sutaria, suggesting the wider emotional tensions surrounding the central pair.
That mood had been carefully built even before the full video landed. On social media, the official Toxic handle posted, “What do you call a forbidden love that only exists in stolen time?”, tagging Kiara Advani, and she replied, “Tabaahi.” Zee Music Company then heightened the anticipation further with, “Stay Tuned…”, before unveiling the full video.
Composer and singer Vishal Mishra’s statement matches the film’s charged emotional register. He said, ” Tabaahi isn’t a love song in the conventional sense, it’s love as wreckage, as surrender, as fire that doesn’t ask permission. Toxic demanded music that could hold that intensity: epic and intimate at once. Yash Bhai brings a rare conviction to the screen that I tried to match note for note. Tabaahi, for me, was about chasing that raw, unfiltered pulse of love, the kind that consumes before it comforts.”
If the song establishes the emotional stakes, the film around it is clearly operating on a much bigger canvas.
Inside Toxic’S Starry Cast And Big Screen Ambition
Directed by Geetu Mohandas, Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups has been written by Yash and Geetu Mohandas. The film stars Yash, Nayanthara, Kiara Advani, Tara Sutaria, Rukmini Vasanth and Huma Qureshi, bringing together one of the more striking ensembles currently lined up in Indian cinema.
Produced by KVN Productions and Monster Mind Creations, the gangster drama has been shot in Kannada and English, and will also release in dubbed versions in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. The film is scheduled to release in theatres on August 26, 2026, positioning Tabaahi as an early window into the emotional world driving its story. For Yash, that scale also makes the song launch feel like more than a music release, it feels like the opening note of an important new chapter.
Yash Enters A High Stakes New Chapter
For Yash, Toxic marks his first release since K.G.F: Chapter 2, which arrived in 2022 and became a blockbuster that expanded his reach far beyond Kannada cinema. With no intervening release in theatres or on OTT since then, Toxic carries the weight of a major return, especially as it pairs him with filmmaker Geetu Mohandas in a darker, stylised world.
Beyond Toxic, Yash is also attached to Ramayana: Part 1, where he will play Ravana. That makes Toxic the immediate next theatrical milestone in a career phase defined by scale, ambitious long-gestation projects and towering audience expectation.
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