Preface: The social work of cinema -- Bollywood's India -- Making India -- Remaking India I -- Remaking India II -- Unmaking "India" -- Cinema as public fantasy "two dynasties that rule the nation's popular imagination" -- Police and thieves -- Career opportunities -- Cinema as family romance -- Film, family, and family romance -- Deewaar, the manifest narrative -- "India is Indira" -- Bollywood, Bollylite -- The world according to Bollywood -- The world according to Hollywood -- Bollylite in America -- Epilogue: Anthem for a new India.