Abstract
This article explores the different qualities of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ as they are visualised in various films produced by Indian filmmakers between 1970 and 2001; on the one hand, by commercial Mumbai cinema, and on the other hand, overseas, non-commercial film directors. The key question is how notions such as longing and belonging to a country and cultural heritage are articulated and contested by Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). The article proposes that in terms of values and identification, there is a shift from national responsibility to familial loyalty to individually chosen habitats. The first section of the article examines three films that address the question of how Indians can uphold and rejuvenate patriotic values and loyalties towards their motherland and family traditions. This idea of a ‘portable identity’ is counterposed in the second section of the article, which examines two films about second-generation Indians living in North America who feel estranged by their parents’ traditions and the idea of return and seek to root themselves permanently abroad.
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