BuddyCinemas · saved September 9, 2026
Last updated: September 9, 2026
BuddyCinemas is a streaming entertainment platform for shorts, short-series, series and films, available on the web and through Android and iOS apps.
Most streaming services ask you to decide before you have seen anything: subscribe first, browse second. We start the other way round.
Browse the whole catalogue without an account. Nothing is hidden behind a signup form until you press play.
Signing in is free, and it is what unlocks watching. Some titles are free to watch once you are signed in. Others are premium, and you open those either by spending Tokens or by paying for them directly. A title you unlock with Tokens stays unlocked — the unlock does not expire.
Tokens are earned by using the app, through a daily check-in, a daily scratch card, and rewarded ads where they are offered. They exist so that time and attention are a real alternative to money for a viewer who would rather spend the former.
We are deliberately plain about what a Token is not. Tokens have no cash value. They cannot be withdrawn, converted to cash, transferred to another account, sold, or exchanged for anything outside BuddyCinemas. There is no mechanism to do any of it — this is not a policy that can be appealed, simply a thing the platform does not do. A Token is a key to content you have not paid cash for, and nothing more. The FAQ covers how they are earned and spent in detail.
Titles on BuddyCinemas are sourced directly and through onboarded content partners and producers, under commercial licensing agreements with defined territory, revenue-share and ownership terms. We report earnings back to those partners on per-title statements rather than a single opaque number, because a producer should be able to see which of their titles earned what.
If you make films or series and would like to license content to us, the "Business & Content Partnerships" section on our Contact page is the way in.
BuddyCinemas is operated by two affiliated companies under a single brand:
Newtact Lab Private Limited, an Indian private limited company, operates the Service for users located in India, including India-specific billing and compliance with the Indian intermediary and consumer-protection regulations that apply to it. Its registered office is at 12th Floor, Manjeera Trinity Corporate, Geek Space Business Centre, Near Lulu Mall, KPHB Phase 3, Hyderabad, Telangana 500072, India.
Thaja FZE LLC, established in the United Arab Emirates, owns the BuddyCinemas brand and the underlying intellectual property, and operates the Service for users located outside India.
Full entity, billing and tax-registration detail is on our Corporate Information page.
Naveen DAVULURI — Founder & CEO
General questions go to hello@buddycinemas.com. Our Contact page lists department-specific routing, and the Grievance Redressal & Copyright Policy names our Grievance Officer and sets out the formal process and response times for legal, privacy and copyright matters.