Seeing this wonderfully colored film is the next best thing to paying a visit to this fine Indian town. Views of both the old and new city are given, and while the former is the most picturesque, the latter, of course, is better built, possessing really fine up-to-date buildings, such as the Anglican church and the big market. Various mosques and pagodas are also seen. The street scenes are of course most unusual and therefore interesting to foreigners. The natives in their loose, gaily colored trousers walking about in their bare feet with up-to-date buildings on every side of them seems indeed incongruous. One of the most interesting things in the film are the wonderful Elephanta caves hewn out of the mountain and which are visited daily by crowds of tourists.
—Moving Picture World synopsis