Check out this gallery of Bombay’s Art Deco apartments and cinemas:

[Bombay] also boasts of the second largest number of Art Deco buildings, the largest number being in Miami in the United States. [Link]

… the whole frontage on the west of Oval Maidan, terminated by the Eros Cinema on the North, is Art Deco. Other famous buildings are the Regal and Metro cinemas. [Link]

Like Rockefeller Center, the bas relief panels look like mashups of Ayn Rand covers with Mother India:

Frontline reports that many of these old buildings are being renovated in ways not in keeping with the original style:

Unfortunately, because Mumbai is an island city, conservation concerns are not a priority when it comes to making a choice between preservation and creation of residential or commercial space… Not as startlingly grand as the neo-Gothic or the Indo-Saracenic style, Art Deco is undervalued and has suffered great losses during the course of repair work… old buildings are often identified for repair or demolition based on the amount of teak wood that they contain… the contractor makes a small fortune from the teak wood…

Much damage to the city’s heritage buildings was done during Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party rule in Maharashtra (1995-99). [Link]