Overview
- Online critics targeted Kiara Advani for intimate scenes in the Tabaahi music video from Toxic, with some commenters questioning her choices as a married woman and mother.
- Huma Qureshi publicly rejected the trolling on Yuvaa's Be A Man, Yaar! podcast, saying the women in the film "will have the last laugh" and urging that the film should answer the critics' mindset.
- Benedict Garrett and Saqib Saleem also defended Kiara, with Garrett noting that Yash has faced far less abuse for the same scenes and Saleem asking who the online critics are.
- The backlash spilled over to Kiara's husband Sidharth Malhotra when trolls posted similar comments on his social accounts, expanding the dispute beyond the music video.
- The exchange highlights a recurring pattern in film promotion where female actors face harsher public scrutiny for on‑screen intimacy and could influence how audiences and media approach Toxic before its August 26 release.