New Delhi:Kiara Advani recently shared her experience of working in Yash’s Toxic: A Fairy Tale For Grown-Ups and said that the director Geetu Mohandas had a rather unusual request for her on the sets. The film was originally scheduled for release on June 4, 2026, but has been delayed. The makers have not announced a new release date yet.
Kiara Advani on shooting for Yash’s Toxic: “My heart was racing…
Talking to Bombay Times, Kiara said, “Geetu wanted me to be completely in the skin of my character while shooting. The actor is known for being friendly on set, greeting everyone when she arrives, but she said she had to change that habit for this project. “Geetu is like, okay tomorrow when you come on set, I want you to be… And I am a person who when I walk on set I am always like, ‘Hi, what’s up, good morning’, I am that person. “And she’s like, ‘I don’t want pleasantries, I want you to come in that zone, no hi hello, not your team, nobody, just be in a zone today’,” Kiara told Bombay Times.
Kiara Advani on shooting Toxic in Kannada
The actor also revealed that Toxic was one of her tougher projects, mainly because she had to shoot scenes in Kannada apart from English. She had to do some extra preparation to learn and deliver the dialogues since Kannada is not her mother tongue.
“Working in Kannada, I think I would say Toxic has been challenging because it’s the first time that we shot in both English and Kannada. We’d do the same scene. So this shot was an English shot first until we got the take right. Then we do the Kannada take, because you are, at least for someone like me, Kannada not being my language, mugging up my dialogues literally the night before," she said.
The film was shot in English and Kannada and will be released in several other languages including Hindi.
Though working in a different language industry, Kiara said she did not find the experience vastly different from her work in Hindi cinema. She says: “There are cultural differences, but overall it feels like a familiar working environment.
“There might be slight cultural differences, but I think at the end of the day we are all Indians at the core, so there is a similarity, there is a familiarity. It's even the style of working sometimes, the bigger the stars and backup, which is great over there. “But otherwise, I think I have had a similar experience working in Hindi and Telugu language,” she said.
Toxic: A Fairy Tale For Grown-Ups is produced by KVN Productions and Monster Mind Creations and stars Kiara, Yash, Nayanthara, Huma Qureshi, Rukmini Vasanth and Tara Sutaria in pivotal roles.
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