The makers of Geethu Mohandas's pan-Indian action film Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups released the official music video of 'Tabaahi' on Wednesday, 8 July 2025, marking the first song launch from the highly anticipated project. Starring Yash and Kiara Advani, the visually arresting number offers audiences their first real window into the world of Toxic, which is set to release in cinemas worldwide on 26 August 2026.

What Tabaahi Is About

Far from a conventional love ballad, Tabaahi frames romance as something volatile and all-consuming — intimate yet catastrophic. Set against a grand cinematic canvas, the music video pairs breathtaking visuals with electrifying guitar arrangements and a soaring orchestral score. The on-screen chemistry between Yash and Kiara Advani, a new pairing for Indian cinema, has already drawn significant attention online within hours of the drop.

Producer KVN Productions accompanied the release with a quote from Rumi: 'Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.' — a deliberate framing that signals the film's thematic ambition beyond standard action-entertainer territory.

The Build-Up: A Social Media Exchange That Set the Stage

A day before the release, on 7 July, the film's official handle posted a teaser prompt — 'What do you call a forbidden love that only exists in stolen time?' — tagging Kiara Advani. She responded with a single word: 'Tabaahi.' Zee Music Company then quoted her reply with 'Stay Tuned...', effectively turning the exchange into a viral countdown that sent fan communities into anticipation overdrive.

The Creative Team Behind the Song

Tabaahi has been composed and sung by Vishal Mishra, with Hindi lyrics penned by Raj Shekhar. Speaking about the track, Mishra 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.'

The song has been released in five languages — Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam — with regional adaptations handled by Yogaraj Bhat (Kannada), Ramajogayya Sastry (Telugu), Vignesh Shivan (Tamil), and Rafeeq Ahammed (Malayalam), underlining the film's pan-Indian ambitions.

About the Film

Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups has been written by Yash and Geethu Mohandas and directed by Geethu Mohandas. Shot primarily in Kannada and English, it has been dubbed into Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and other languages. The film features a powerhouse ensemble cast including Nayanthara, Kiara Advani, Tara Sutaria, Rukmini Vasanth, and Huma Qureshi alongside Yash. It is produced by KVN Productions and Monster Mind Creations.

With Tabaahi now out, all eyes turn to what further reveals the makers have planned ahead of the 26 August 2026 worldwide theatrical release.