Now streaming on Hotstar in India: Disney+

Disney+, with its original catalog, has arrived in India

weeks ahead of its scheduled launch date

. Disney revamped Hotstar app and populated the on-demand video streaming service, which has amassed over 300 million users, with Disney+ original catalog on Wednesday morning (local time).

The service is currently available at no additional charge to existing Hotstar subscribers — who pay Rs 999 ($14) for a year — though the premium tier carries a new yearly sticker price of Rs 3,588 ($48).

The “Disney+ Hotstar” offers more than a dozen original titles from Disney, including “Diary of a Future President,” “Disney Family Sundays,”

“Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings,” “Encore,” “High School Musical,” “The Mandalorian,” and “The World According to Jeff Goldblum.”

Some users have pointed out that the in-app player is not able to stream some titles seamlessly. And that the titles are available in full-HD (1080P), instead of their native 4K (UHD) resolution. Hotstar in India has yet to add support for 4K.

The early rollout of Disney+Hotstar comes at a rough time for Disney and Hotstar that have received

criticism for censoring John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” show

.

The streaming service, which is the exclusive streaming syndicating partner for HBO, Showtime, and ABC in India, blocked a recent episode of “Last Week Tonight” that was critical of India’s ruling party and its leader, Narendra Modi.

Oliver documented these instances and revealed that Hotstar had also

edited a few jokes about Disney from some of his recent episodes

. The company has yet to comment on the censorship issues.

More to follow…