The cinematic imagination : Indian popular films as social history Nation and its discontents. The nation in theory ; The creative ImagiNation ; Theorizing national cinema ; Nation and its embodiments ; Pleasure and terror of the feminine. The idealized woman. Fixing the figure of the woman ; Woman community nation ; The social butterfly. Heroes and villains: narrating the nation. Masculinity ; Heroes and villains ; Sons and mothers. Heroines romance and social history. Reading resistance ; Contesting the Laxman Rekha ; Film star text: reading social change. The sexed body. Filmic love ; Victims to vigilantes ; Rape and the rape threat ; The sexed body and specular pleasure ; Double speak about the body ; Unsettled scores. Re reading romance. Transgressions of true love ; Reinstating family values ; Romantic love and the culture of consumption ; The end of the Nehruvian Era