ABSTRACT
The pursuit of premarital relationships, underpinned by discourses of heterosexual romance and love, is another transgressive aspect of Bollywood-inspired youth culture that young Muslim women in the bustees pursue. Risk taking is essential in young women's pursuit of love biographies. Like Bollywood dance desires and identities, young women depend on public and private supporters, group risk taking and a shared literacy of love in their premarital pursuit of love, sex and romance. Like dancing, young women develop premarital relationships in third spaces, including on the Nach Baliye rehearsal roof, in shopping plazas, at parks and within the bustees themselves.
