JioCinema 299 Plan Launched! Worth buying or not? Find out

Jiocinema 299 annual plan is launched and is finally up for grabs for those wishing to get a 12-month JioCinema plan (ad-free except for Sports & Live Shows). Currently, the JioCinema annual plan costs ₹299 which on the face of it looks cheaper than Netflix, Disney Hotstar, Zee5, etc.

But hold your horses right there, the Jiocinema 299 plan is under the 50% OFF offer and the original plan price is Rs.599 yearly.

This means for the first year, users will have to pay ₹299 for a 12-month JioCinema subscription and from the next year onwards the subscription price will be ₹599.

In this article, let’s have a complete breakdown of the JioCinema 299 annual plan, is it worth buying? Let’s find out.

JioCinema's ₹299 annual plan is out but did you know it's not the first time that JioCinema is launching an annual plan? Earlier this year the telecom giant was offering the JioCinema Premium at ₹999 per year. Later on, the plan was removed and was replaced by monthly and family plans. Jio has now brought back the annual plan at a much lower price.

The JioCinema annual plan costs ₹599 and with a 50% OFF discount, users can grab the plan at ₹299.

If you are an existing JioCinema subscriber (monthly), you can grab a discount of Rs.26 on a Rs.299 annual plan bringing down the price to Rs.273. Now, this might or might not be user-specific. But, it's certainly worth checking once. This doesn’t have any effect on the validity of your annual plan, that is you will still be able to get a complete 12-month subscription plan upon upgrading.

Note that this discount depends on the number of days left of your monthly plan's validity.  

To get a discount on JioCinema, you can use a JioCinema promo code. Though its not as easily available. Last time our users were able to grab 30% OFF on renewing their subscription by using the promo code JC30 on JioCinema.

There’s also one more way to get a discount on JioCinema plans and that is by using Google Play Gift Card which is up for grabs at flat 5% on Wohoo. Here are the steps to take if you wish to grab a 3% to 5% discount on your JioCinema Premium Plan:

1. Buy a Google Play Gift Card at a discount from any of the gift card-selling websites such as Amazon, Wohoo, etc

2. On the payment window, select Redeem Code

3. Enter your Google Play gift card code

4. Complete the payment

5. You have now successfully bought JioCinema Premium at a discount

Important: This method would only work for new users (who are buying the JioCinema plan for the first time) & those who had selected the same payment method earlier while buying their initial plan (that is if you already have JioCinema Premium and you had paid for it using UPI, debit card, etc, you cannot use this method)

Disclaimer: Views mentioned below are personal opinions/views of the author

The JioCinema Premium annual plan at Rs.299 is only worth buying for those who are occasional OTT buffs (thanks to the limited content library of new movies & shows on JioCinema). The content library currently features only a few latest movies, originals and TV shows. The remaining content library is filled with some old, renowned movies of the 2000 era.

You can find a few recent (not latest) Hindi Bollywood movies like OMG 2, Zara Hatke Zara Bachke, Bloody Daddy, and Akeli. However, the list quickly reaches a limit, leaving only older Hindi movies from 2010 to 2022 to mention, such as Bhediya, Tanu Weds Manu, Vikram Vedha, Airlift, and others.

The Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam & other regional genres content library also seem to have a pretty similar tale to tell.

However, it does get a little better when you switch to the English genre movies and TV shows. Users can browse through some latest or recent movie & TV show releases like The Sympathizer (2024), Oppenheimer (2023), The Flash (2023), Barbie (2023), etc. There are also some old but popular English movies, shows & web series like Chernobyl, Game of Thrones, Interstellar, Shark Tank and more.

The JioCinema subscription plan is not worth buying for those who prefer a mega-size content library such as Amazon Prime, Netflix or Disney+ Hotstar may have. If you think you could be happy watching a movie or two on weekends, JioCinema can be certainly worth it.

So this was all about sharing the JioCinema 299 plan launch in India. Note that the features of the JioCinema annual plan of ₹299 offer you up to 4K quality for any 1 device. If you need more than a single device, you must purchase the JioCinema Family Subscription Plan which costs ₹89 currently.

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