Overview
- Toxic opened with a record‑size India net of about Rs 101.10 crore on Day 1 but then suffered an unusually steep week‑one erosion with trade trackers reporting roughly a 95% fall from that opening by the end of the first week.
- On Day 12 the film’s India net stood near Rs 245–246 crore and its worldwide gross was reported around Rs 333–338 crore, figures that traders call far below the scale the makers had aimed for.
- Language performance was uneven with the Kannada version repeatedly supplying a disproportionate share of daily grosses while the English/dubbed theatrical release reportedly sold only about 450 tickets nationwide.
- Newwide competition from Mirzapur: The Movie and the low‑budget Hanuman Ansh materially pulled screens and audiences away, with Hanuman Ansh posting an unusually strong long‑tail run that outperformed Toxic on some days.
- Industry reports say post‑theatrical streaming offers have collapsed to roughly Rs 30 crore and the makers are reportedly weighing a re‑edit for OTT to recover value, a move that underscores the large expected losses against widely cited budget estimates of about Rs 500 crore.