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Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups has received an 18+ rating from the BBFC in the UK ahead of its August 26 release. The film has been rated 5/5 for violence, sex and injury detail, while also receiving high ratings for threat, drugs, sexual violence, language and self-harm

Filmmaker Geetu Mohandas' Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups, starring Yash in the lead, has received an 18+ certification from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) ahead of its release. The Kannada film has been given high ratings for violence, injury detail and sex, among several other categories.

According to the BBFC listing, Toxic has been mistakenly categorised as a Tamil film instead of Kannada. The certification description says the movie follows “the leader of a powerful drug cartel in Goa” who “sows the seeds of his own destruction.”

The film has received a 5/5 rating for violence, sex and injury detail. It has also been rated 4/5 for threat and horror, language, drugs, sexual violence and sexual threat, as well as suicide and self-harm. The UK version has a runtime of 191 minutes and 41 seconds.

The BBFC's violence classification reportedly describes the film as containing, “Strong violence includes shootings, stabbings, throat slashings, bludgeonings, torture, hangings, immolations and dismemberments, frequently resulting in large blood spurts and grisly injury detail.”