Video-on-demand service Hooq, backed by Warner Bros., Sony Pictures and Singapore telecom’s Singtel launches this June. The ad-free service will broadcast Hollywood and Indian content at a monthly price of $3.20.
“Hooq brings to India the biggest Hollywood catalog where customers can look forward to more than 5,000 Hollywood movies and television series and TV shows,” the company said in a statement. “This includes titles from Sony, Warner Bros., Disney, Dreamworks and Miramax such as Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Pulp Fiction and TV series such as Nikita, The Shield, Friends, Lost and Grey’s Anatomy.”
In addition to Bollywood content in Hindi, the service will offer titles from regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi, among others too, says The Hollywood Reporter.