Archive · 19 Aug 2026
Yash’s Toxic Receives UK 18 Certificate for Graphic Content
Yash’s upcoming film Toxic has received an 18 certificate in the United Kingdom.
The rating was issued by the British Board of Film Classification.
The board said the movie has strong violence, sex, and injury detail.
Violence, sex, and injury detail each received the highest score of five out of five.
The listing also gives high scores for threats, drugs, sexual violence, and self-harm.
It describes shootings, stabbings, torture, dismemberments, and bloody injuries.
The film is set around a drug-cartel leader in Goa.
It is scheduled to be released in theatres on August 26.
The British Board of Film Classification gave Yash’s Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown Ups an 18 certificate in the United Kingdom.
The BBFC rated violence, sex, and injury detail five out of five.
The film received four out of five for threat and horror, language, drugs, sexual violence and sexual threat, and suicide and self-harm.
The certification describes shootings, stabbings, torture, dismemberments, corpses, severed body parts, and extensive blood.
The film is scheduled to reach theatres on August 26 after being postponed from its planned release alongside Dhurandhar: The Revenge.
- Who
- The British Board of Film Classification rated Toxic, starring Yash and directed by Geetu Mohandas.
- What
- Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown Ups received an 18 certificate for strong violence, sex, injury detail, and other mature content.
- When
- The film is scheduled for theatrical release on August 26; the articles do not specify the year.
- Where
- The certification was issued in the United Kingdom, while the BBFC description places the story in Goa.
- Why
- The BBFC identified graphic violence, bloody injuries, sexual content, threats, drugs, sexual violence, and suicide or self-harm.
- Film
- Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown Ups
- Lead actor
- Yash
- Director
- Geetu Mohandas
- Certifying body
- British Board of Film Classification
- UK certificate
- 18
- Highest content ratings
- Five out of five for violence, sex, and injury detail
- UK runtime
- 191 minutes and 41 seconds
- Language discrepancy
- The film is described as Kannada-language in one place and Tamil-language in another; the articles say it was shot in Kannada and English.
