Аннотация:Abstract This article results from survey‐based research on the actual and situated viewing practices of Indian diaspora women who watch Bollywood. I argue that they thereby construct – and not merely consume – new definitions of national and diasporic identity and motherhood through this mediation. Further, I argue that the personal and communal identities constructed by diaspora female Bollywood‐watchers are not merely nostalgic, but a complex amalgam of their responses to the porosity and ambiguity of the medium of Bollywood film.
