About r/bollywood
Community guide
r/bollywood is #750 in our SFW Top 1000 (about 1.4 million subscribers). Recent activity samples show 42 posts/day in recent samples (~37% image, ~24% video, ~23% text). Public rules we collected include: Karma Restrictions and Non Appearance of Posts; All posts must be related to Bollywood or Indian Web Series; Religious/Political Posts and comments; Memes and Fan Art should be posted on r/BollywoodMemes; Mutual Respect.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own channel or shop. Civility/anti-harassment rules apply; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Search before reposting common clips or questions. Common flairs in samples include: ASK❓️, Opinion, Discuss, Reviews.
SubMouse Editorial
It sits just behind r/AnimeSketch (#749) and ahead of r/GPT3 (#751) in our ranking.
What sets r/bollywood apart
Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (07:00 UTC) sees about 7.7× as many posts as the quietest (21:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/bollywood climbed from 1,416,959 to 1,417,607 subscribers (+648, +0.05%). That is about 162 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (2 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/bollywood talks about
Looking at the titles of 304 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “ramayana”, “movie”, “movies”, “film” and “trailer”. Other frequent themes are indian, khan, king, hai, good and sita. Recurring phrases include “box office”, “akka declined”, “yash casting” and “varun dhawan”. By format, 37% are images, 24% are videos and 23% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: ASK❓️ (67), Opinion (46), Discuss (46), Reviews (28), Humour🤡 (19), News:News: (12).
Activity and best time to post
r/bollywood gets about 42 new posts a day. The public archive holds 180,493 posts and 1,997,628 comments in total, about 11.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (55 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (29). Posting peaks around 07:00 UTC and is lowest around 21:00 UTC.
Rules of r/bollywood
The moderators of r/bollywood list 9 rules. In short:
- Karma Restrictions and Non Appearance of Posts
- All posts must be related to Bollywood or Indian Web Series
- Religious/Political Posts and comments
- Memes and Fan Art should be posted on r/BollywoodMemes
- Mutual Respect
- Repost
- Violation of Reddit self-promotion rules
- Permanent Ban
- Sub Disruption/Hate accounts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/bollywood and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/bollywood have?
r/bollywood has 1,417,607 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #750 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 648 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How active is r/bollywood?
Very active: r/bollywood gets about 42 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 180,493 posts and 1,997,628 comments. In a sample of 304 recent posts we counted 250 different authors.
When is r/bollywood most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 07:00 UTC, with the fewest around 21:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/bollywood about?
r/bollywood is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention ramayana, movie, movies, film and trailer. Most posts are images (37%).
Is r/bollywood safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/bollywood as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/bollywood?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/bollywood accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Karma Restrictions and Non Appearance of Posts”; “All posts must be related to Bollywood or Indian Web Series”; “Religious/Political Posts and comments”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/bollywood?
Communities with similar topics include r/BollyBlindsNGossip (2.6M), r/movies (37.7M), r/entertainment (6.6M), r/horror (3.6M) and r/MovieSuggestions (1.9M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/bollywood.