ABSTRACT
It may not be inaccurate to suggest that at the close of the twentieth century in India, the media including television, radio, print and cinema, emerged as an authoritative archive of contemporary cultural sensibilities. The same moment also witnessed an efflorescence and rapid circulation of speech and representation on issues of sex and sexuality. In this chapter, I look at how cinema becomes available to us as a site of competing discourses around sexuality, thereby providing us perceptive, even controversial, insights into the articulation of desire. For the purposes of this chapter, I will look at the expansive landscape of Bombay cinema (or Bollywood as it is now popularly called), in an attempt to understand how it may have archived our journeys of desire.1
