How to Watch Toxic (2026) Online in 4K

Toxic (2026) is an Indian action crime drama film directed by Geetu Mohandas, starring Yash in a dual role alongside Kiara Advani, Nayanthara, and Huma Qureshi. Budgeted at ₹850 crore (approximately US$89 million), it is the most expensive Indian film ever made. The film releases worldwide on August 26, 2026. With InfinityTV's 150,000+ Movies & Series library, you can stream this action crime drama film in 4K as soon as it becomes available on streaming.

If you want to watch Toxic, the most ambitious and expensive Indian film ever produced, you have arrived at exactly the right guide. Toxic is a 2026 Kannada-language and English-language period crime epic directed by Geetu Mohandas and starring Yash — the global star of the KGF franchise — in a dual role that promises to be his most demanding and spectacular work yet. The film is scheduled for worldwide theatrical release on August 26, 2026, and its scale alone makes it one of the year's most significant cinematic events. This guide covers everything confirmed about the film and how to stream Toxic in 4K with InfinityTV when it arrives.

What is Toxic about?

Toxic is set primarily in Goa and follows the meteoric rise of a drug cartel across several decades — from the 1940s through the 1970s. It traces the ascent of a criminal empire through a period of Indian history defined by independence, partition, social transformation, and the arrival of globalized criminal networks. The scope is epic: multiple decades, multiple power structures, and a story that uses the crime genre as a lens for examining broader questions about ambition, violence, and the nature of power.

Yash plays the central role in a dual performance — two characters whose relationship to each other and to the cartel's history is central to the narrative. The dual role reflects the scale of the production's ambitions: this is a film designed to showcase its lead at his absolute maximum, across periods, registers, and physical demands.

How expensive is Toxic?

Toxic is budgeted at ₹850 crore (approximately US$89 million), making it the most expensive Indian film ever produced. For context, the KGF films — the franchise that made Yash a pan-Indian star — had a combined budget of approximately ₹250 crore across both parts. Toxic almost quadruples that in a single film.

The scale of the investment reflects the global ambitions of the production: the film was simultaneously shot in Kannada and English, a bilingual approach that positions it for both the domestic Indian market and international theatrical distribution.

Principal photography and production

Toxic was filmed across multiple locations in India, including Bengaluru, Mumbai, Goa, Thoothukudi, and Jaipur — a range that reflects the diversity of settings the 30-year period story requires. Principal photography ran from August 2024 to October 2025, a 14-month shoot that underlines the ambition of the production.

Who is directing Toxic?

Geetu Mohandas is a Malayalam film director, actress, and screenwriter whose directing work — Liar's Dice (2013), which was India's Academy Award submission and an official selection in the Best Foreign Language Film category, and Moothon (2019) — has established her as one of the most formally adventurous directors in Indian cinema.

The choice of Mohandas as director is significant. She has never made a film at this scale, but her reputation for visual precision, narrative patience, and the ability to hold complex tonal registers simultaneously makes her an interesting creative choice for a crime epic that needs to work across decades. Toxic represents a genuine expansion of her scope while drawing on the period-detail and narrative depth her previous work has demonstrated.

The full cast of Toxic

The ensemble assembled for Toxic is one of the largest star casts in recent Indian cinema:

• Yash in a dual role as the central character(s)
• Kiara Advani (Kabir Singh, Jug Jugg Jeeyo) — one of Bollywood's biggest female stars
• Nayanthara — one of Tamil and Telugu cinema's most influential female stars, nicknamed "Lady Superstar"
• Huma Qureshi (Gangs of Wasseypur, Tarla) — a highly regarded Hindi film actress
• Tara Sutaria (Student of the Year 2, Heropanti 2)
• Rukmini Vasanth — a Tamil film actress with critical acclaim in South Indian cinema

The combination of stars from multiple Indian language industries — Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi — mirrors the film's ambition to be a genuinely pan-Indian release.

Why is this film different from the KGF series?

KGF: Chapter 1 (2018) and KGF: Chapter 2 (2022) established Yash as a pan-Indian star with a fictional goldfield epic. Toxic uses that star power in a different kind of story: a crime period drama rather than an action-fantasy, a Goa drug cartel rather than a Kolar Gold Fields rebellion. The period setting from the 1940s to 1970s places the film in post-independence India rather than a vaguely mythological present-day. Mohandas's direction is also stylistically different from the KGF series's hyper-kinetic visual style — she is a more restrained and literary filmmaker, which suggests Toxic may be tonally closer to a prestige crime epic than to the grandiose spectacle of KGF.

Release date and language versions

Toxic releases worldwide on August 26, 2026. The film was simultaneously shot in Kannada and English and will release in multiple Indian language versions for domestic distribution. This bilingual shoot approach — rather than dubbing — signals the production's intention to position the English version for international theatrical markets.

How to watch Toxic in 4K on InfinityTV

Given the film's August 26, 2026 theatrical release, streaming availability will follow the theatrical and OTT window, typically four to eight weeks after theatrical release for films of this scale. Indian mega-productions of this type have recently streamed on Netflix or Prime Video depending on deal structures.

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4. Search for Toxic in the VOD library when it becomes available on streaming.
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Why Toxic is the most anticipated Indian film of late 2026

The combination of factors here is genuinely unusual. A ₹850 crore budget. A pan-Indian star at the height of his commercial power. A director whose credentials are critical rather than commercial, bringing genuine prestige ambition to a mass-audience production. A setting — the post-independence Goa drug trade — that is historically and cinematically unexplored. A bilingual simultaneous shoot targeting both domestic and international audiences. And a dual-role for the lead that demands a quality of performance that blockbuster-scale action films rarely require.

Whether Toxic delivers on all of these promises will be clear on August 26, 2026. What is already clear is that no production in Indian cinema history has launched with more invested in its success.

What to watch before Toxic releases

If you want to arrive at Toxic fully prepared for the scale of what Geetu Mohandas and Yash are attempting, two films are worth watching first.

KGF: Chapter 2 (2022) is the best showcase of Yash at his current commercial peak. The film runs nearly three hours and operates at a volume that few action films match. It also demonstrates why Yash is the right star for a story about criminal empire-building: he carries grandiosity naturally, without it tipping into self-parody.

Moothon (2019) — Geetu Mohandas's previous feature — operates at a completely different register: quieter, more intimate, deeply humane. Watching it reveals what Mohandas does as a filmmaker when budget and scale are no constraint on her artistic choices. Toxic will be her most ambitious work, but Moothon is proof that the ambition has a strong creative foundation.

Both are available through InfinityTV's 150,000+ Movies & Series library, which spans Indian cinema across languages and production eras.

For more upcoming releases across Indian and international cinema, see our top movies to watch 2026 and watch new movies 2026 guides.

Frequently asked questions

When does Toxic release?

Toxic releases worldwide in theaters on August 26, 2026.

How much does Toxic cost to make?

Toxic is budgeted at ₹850 crore (approximately US$89 million), making it the most expensive Indian film ever produced.

Who stars in Toxic?

Yash stars in a dual role, supported by Kiara Advani, Nayanthara, Huma Qureshi, Tara Sutaria, and Rukmini Vasanth.

What is Toxic about?

Toxic traces the rise of a drug cartel in Goa from the 1940s through the 1970s, spanning several decades of post-independence Indian history. Yash plays the central character in a dual role across the film's period timeline.

Where can I watch Toxic?

Toxic releases theatrically August 26, 2026. It is expected to stream on a major Indian OTT platform (Netflix or Prime Video) following its theatrical window. With InfinityTV's 150,000+ Movies & Series library, you can stream it in 4K in one app. See IMDb for updates. View InfinityTV plans.