Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is big. It’s full of dreamers and hard-labourers, starlets and strugglers, street food hawkers and dabbawalas , artists and servants, fisherfolk and crorepatis (millionaires), and lots and lots of people. It has India’s most prolific film industry, some of Asia’s biggest slums (as well as the world’s most expensive home) and the largest tropical forest in an urban zone. Mumbai is India’s financial powerhouse, fashion epicentre.
If Mumbai is your introduction to India, prepare yourself.
Mumbai the biggest cities of Maharashtra and popular as the entertainment and financial capital. It is the largest city of India and fondly called as the city of dreams. This city also has its very own language that is the Bambaiiya Hindi, and filled with warm and friendly people.
The City absorbs influences into her midst and inventively make them her own. Architecturally, the art deco and modern towers lend the city its cool, but it’s dramatic flourishes of its Victorian-era structures that are the essence of Mumbai’s visual magic. Today, the city is gathering culinary threads from around the world and leads India in the creativity of its restaurants. It is the country’s capital of cinema, fashion and nightlife.
The city isn’t a threatening place but its furious energy, limited public transport and punishing pollution make it challenging for visitors. The heart of the city contains some of the grandest colonial-era architecture on the planet but explore a little more and you’ll uncover unique bazaars, hidden temples, hipster enclaves and India’s premier restaurants and nightlife.
