Four months ago, I posted that a large number of Hindi movies had disappeared from Hulu. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but it was likely after Disney and Reliance announced their merger in late 2024. Since that February post, I’ve clicked on all of the approximately 2,000 links I had on my Bollywood Movies Streaming on Hulu page at the start of 2025 to see which are still active.
After removing all the inactive links, my Hulu page is less the half the size it previously was. Approximately 800 titles remain (with a couple of caveats I’ll get to in a bit). Most of the loses were within Hulu’s Indian movie collection. As it stands, there are 53 films in the Hindi/Desi section, 4 Bengali movies, 17 Kannada films, 19 Malayalam movies, 13 Marathi films, 20 Tamil movies, and 22 Telugu films. I removed over 1,000 movies from the page.
Admittedly, I’m probably missing some titles. I look for movies and series myself, getting updates from various news sources and even checking the “You May Also Like” recommendations under individual titles. None of what I do is automated.
Besides that acknowledgment, there are two big caveats. While some movies and series have disappeared outright and don’t return a result when you search Hulu’s catalog for them, other catalog entries remain with the option to watch the trailer. Gaslight is an example, though there are other films and series to which this applies. Disney’s plans for Hulu are still in flux, and that goes double for the “Hotstar” Indian content it hosts. I’m keeping these “trailer only” links in the page for now since I’m not certain that they’re gone for good.
The other caveat is that the 800 or so remaining titles are not all unique properties. Thanks to dubbing, a lot of titles repeat within the catalog. Hulu/JioHotstar presents almost all of their original “Hotstar Specials” programming — which includes around 70 series — in seven languages (the original plus six dubs). That means that fewer than half of the 800 links on the page represent unique titles.
While I give credit to Hulu/JioHotstar for adding new, original Indian shows on an almost weekly basis, it’s a huge shame to lose so much of its movie collection. A lot of these back catalog titles aren’t streaming anywhere else right now. They’re just gone, and I’m not sure they’ll be back once Disney figures out how it wants to organize its various streaming entities.
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