The English print of Toxic didn't survive a full week. According to Bollywood Hungama, the version opened on September 4 and was discontinued from Indian screens on September 11, having managed a grand total of roughly Rs 3.16 lakh across seven days.

Friday was as good as it got. The film opened to Rs 1.38 lakh from 11 shows spread across Mumbai, Bengaluru, Gurugram and Noida, four cities in all. There was no weekend bump behind it. Saturday brought Rs 78,774 from a reduced seven shows in three cities, and Sunday slid further to Rs 70,460 even with the same three cities still playing it.

Then the weekday collapse. Monday dropped to Rs 15,034, and Tuesday turned out to be the low point of the week at Rs 3,125, per Bollywood Hungama's numbers. Wednesday clawed back a little to Rs 5,699 before Thursday settled at Rs 4,655. By midweek, the film's English print had been reduced to solo shows in Bengaluru, having already been dropped from Gurugram.

An original version nobody watched

What makes the run odd isn't just the size of the numbers, it's what they represent. Toxic was shot simultaneously in Kannada and English rather than dubbed after the fact, the way Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam versions of the film were produced. So this wasn't a lazy dub competing for screen time. It was, by the production's own account, an original cut of the film, and it still couldn't hold a handful of shows past the opening weekend.

The English version also runs shorter. Bollywood Hungama pegs its runtime at 176.52 minutes, just under two hours and 57 minutes, against 194.12 minutes, or three hours and 14 minutes, for the other language versions. Whether the tighter edit made any difference to walk-ins is impossible to say from the numbers. It clearly didn't make enough of one.

Bollywood Hungama had flagged the trouble early, reporting that the version's opening day drew around 450 ticket sales nationwide, a figure the outlet said went viral within hours. The rest of the week's collections suggest that first-day figure wasn't a fluke start followed by recovery. It was close to the ceiling.

The report notes the poor response wasn't confined to India either, with the English version reportedly finding little audience overseas as well, though no specific overseas figures were shared. For a Rs 3.16 lakh domestic haul spread across a full week, the arithmetic barely needs explaining: whatever revenue Toxic pulls in from here will have to come from its other language versions, because the English print's theatrical run is already done.

What happens to that print next, streaming, home video or nothing at all, hasn't been addressed yet.