Hindi dubbed Hollywood and South Indian movies on 7StarHD: where the dub is

The Hindi dub of a Hollywood or South Indian film lives in the audio menu of the service you open with Watch now. Which tracks to expect for which title, how a dub differs from a remake, and how to find both.

Where the Hindi dub lives

Press Watch now on any title, open the service you chose, and the audio menu lists the tracks. For a Hollywood film on an Indian service that is usually English and Hindi, and often Tamil and Telugu as well; for a Telugu or Tamil blockbuster it is Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada from the day of release, because the studios now dub before the premiere. The catalogue lists each production once, under the language it was made in, and the dubs travel with it on the service. The Hollywood shelf and the South Indian shelf are the two places most people go looking for a Hindi track.

Dub, original, remake

Three different things share a title. The original is the film as made, in its own language. The dub is the same film with a Hindi track, and it is on the same page here, because it is the same production. The remake is a different film, shot again in Hindi with a Hindi cast, and it has its own page with its own year. Every card shows the original title, the language and the year, so RRR the Telugu original and any Hindi remake of a South Indian hit stay apart, and the search results list both when a name is shared.

Which films have a dub

Almost every South Indian release of the last five years carries a Hindi track on its service, and the large ones carry four. Hollywood is patchier: the blockbusters and the franchises are dubbed, the smaller films often carry English with Hindi subtitles instead, and the audio menu is the only honest answer. Korean and Chinese films on Indian services usually carry a Hindi dub or Hindi subtitles; the Korean shelf and the Chinese shelf note the difference on each title page's service.

Subtitles beside the dub

Every service carries English subtitles on nearly every title, and the Indian services carry Hindi subtitles on most. Choose the original with subtitles or the dub with none; the player remembers the choice. The dual audio page explains the two-track question, and the file sizes page covers the quality tiers the dub plays at.

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