This chapter analyzes the place of Bollywood film Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in the generation and circulation of notions of India and Indianness as portable in a historical and political-economic context marked by the liberalization of the Indian economy. Both addressing and representing certain sections of communities in the Indian diaspora, this film participated in the production of discourses about Nonresident Indians or NRIs as authentic and as predicated on masculinist notions of class and mobility. At the same time, NRI women are represented as embodying the eruptive potentiality of erotics. Ultimately, in representing NRIs as idealized, classed, gendered, and...