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What is Disney Plus Hotstar?
As we mentioned before, Disney Plus Hotstar is a collaboration between Disney and Star India’s existing Hotstar streaming service. In 2018, the Walt Disney Company bought out 21st Century Fox in a $71 billion acquisition. This made Star India — owners of Hotstar — a part of the Walt Disney group.
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An Indian entertainment streaming app
Hotstar is the free dedicated app for streaming all of India’s favorite entertainment programs. The app provides the ability to stream live sports and episodes of top TV shows such as Bigg Boss or Special OPS. However, this service has an uphill battle for a top spot in the Indian, European, and U.S. markets.
Features
Hotstar is a free Indian entertainment streaming app available on mobile devices. The app allows you to stream popular movies, TV shows, and news. The app also allows you to stream live matches of India’s favorite sport, cricket.
Disney+Hotstar is your go to video streaming app for the best of live sports, TV shows and movies.
Enjoy unlimited access to 100,000 hours of TV shows and movies from India and across the world, Star India TV shows, every major sporting event like the upcoming Tata IPL 2022 and T20 World Cup and exclusive Hotstar Specials produced by us.
Drawbacks
Because the app is free, Hotstar has an abundance of advertisements and breaks during shows and movies. The ads are intrusive and set the experience back a considerable amount. The app’s layout is also dysfunctional in some areas.
Hotstar lacks a picture-in-picture mode, meaning that building a queue can be tiresome. Video quality may be low for some shows, and subtitles may be too small to read on some devices.
Competition
Hotstar's main competitor is Netflix. Netflix has a heavy presence in India, which is Hotstar’s primary market, that risks suffocating the app. That being said, it’s easier to use Hotstar to watch Indian entertainment in the US and UK than on Netflix. Using Netflix in these countries to watch Indian entertainment requires the use of a virtual private network.
For our users in India, we also bring you the world’s best stories from Disney, Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel studios (Disney+). We’ve also dubbed them in Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil and Telugu!
You can watch on Hotstar:
For Free: Thousands of hours of some of the most popular Indian Movies, Star TV Shows, Previews & Highlights of cricket and other sports, and the latest News.
By subscribing to Disney+ Hotstar VIP: Disney+ shows and movies in dubbed vernacular languages, unrestricted access to live sports (like Tata IPL, Premier League, Formula 1 and Tennis), latest Star TV serials before they premiere on TV, latest Bollywood movies, our exclusive library of shows we’ve produced as Hotstar Specials.
Our take
Hotstar is a unique app that isn’t looking to force you to pay large sums to watch your favorite Indian entertainment. The app has a large number of intrusive ads and breaks that can ruin the experience for less patient viewers. The competition behind the app makes it the underdog behind Netflix and other companies, requiring Hotstar to work harder to maintain a presence in the European, American, and Indian markets.
Should you download it?
Yes. If you want to watch Indian entertainment for free without a VPN.
By subscribing to Disney+ Hotstar Premium: everything in VIP & the latest American TV shows, Hollywood movies & Disney+ movies, shows and Originals in all languages including English.
What you’ll love on Hotstar:
A. For Sports Enthusiasts:
Tata IPL 2022, T20 World Cup
For Tata IPL 2022, Watch ‘N Play is back with exciting features such as The Social Feed, where you can chat as you play, and invite friends.
Some of the other popular tournaments in Hotstar are Premier League (PL), Indian Super League (ISL), Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) & Tennis Grand Slams.
B.The world’s best stories from Disney+:
For our India users we’re bringing the world’s best stories from the best storytellers at Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. 200+ movies, 100+ shows and 30+ originals!
Superhero movies & shows: Avengers Infinity War, Iron Man, Marvel Assemble, Hulk etc.
Disney+ originals: The Mandalorian, Togo, High School Musical and more.
C. For Movie Buffs:
Hollywood movies:
Stuber, Alita and more!
Bollywood movies:
Chhapaak, Tanhaji, Housefull 4 and more!
Vernacular Movies:
Anbudan Appavukku, Jamai Badal, Bangalore Days etc.
જ્ઞાનવાણી:જીવનમાં સફળ થવું હોય તો આ અભિગમ અપનાવો, ગમે તેવા સંજોગો અને પરિસ્થિતિ તમારે તાબે થઈ જશે
D. For Binge-watchers:
Hindi Shows:
Nazar 2, Kasautii Zindagii Kay, RadhaKrishnn etc.
English Shows:
Killing Eve, Game of Thrones (GOT), Chernobyl, Modern Family etc.
Vernacular Shows:
Pandian Stores, Karthika Deepam, Bigg Boss Malayalam, etc.
E.Hotstar Specials:
Bold, authentic and exclusive stories. Watch our latest, Special Ops and Out of Love.
E.Kids content:
Best of the world of Animation including Frozen II, Aladdin, Toy Story 4, Lion King and shows such as Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Art Attack, and more.
Use our Kids mode so your child only gets to see content suitable for her.
If you subscribe to Disney+ Hotstar via iTunes, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and your membership will automatically renew monthly/yearly unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Subscription will be renewed within 24-hours before the end of each period at the rate of your selected plan. Turn off auto-renewal anytime by going to My Account or through iTunes.