Bollywood films are a unique visual repository of India’s public imaginings, and they can, therefore, serve as guides to how India sees its past, present, and aspirational future (Dwyer, 2010). Through close intertextual readings of three key popular films depicting British Indian youth, this article explores the ways in which the UK-born/raised second-generation Indian diaspora has come to be represented within Bollywood. We argue that inter-generational negotiations around long-distance nationalism, social reproduction, and marriage are pivotal to the articulation and regulation of diasporic youth subjectivities in Bollywood films. By foregrounding the interplay of gender, sexuality, and nation, our analysis illuminates the role of Bollywood in mediating a transnational Indian identity which is tethered simultaneously to economic neoliberalism and social conservatism.

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侨民的成年：宝莱坞和第二代英属印度侨民的代表

宝莱坞电影是印度公众想象的独特视觉库，因此，它们可以作为印度如何看待过去、现在和理想未来的指南（Dwyer，2010 年）。通过对描绘英属印度青年的三部主要流行电影的密切互文阅读，本文探讨了在英国出生/长大的第二代印度侨民在宝莱坞中的表现方式。我们认为，围绕长距离民族主义、社会再生产和婚姻的代际谈判对于宝莱坞电影中流散青年主体性的表达和调节至关重要。通过突出性别、性取向和国家之间的相互作用，