Indore is known as "The Commercial Capital" of the state. Trade & Commerce at Indore has a close resemblence with Mumbai. Being well connected to Mumbai by Rail/Road/Air every business trend be it new fashion , technology or just the business culture, comes in very fast to Indore . Hence sometimes also called "Mini-Bombay".Apart from having big shops & showrooms of all the national & international brands (Company outlets), a big cloth market industry has flourished at Indore . Indore is also known for its leather toys and Maheshwari & Chanderi are some very interesting ornate sarees and brocades to offer. There is a lot of zari work coming out of Madhya Pradesh, and the Maheshwari sarees have particularly gained in popularity of late. Besides the fabrics, there is a variety of local carving crafts to choose from.
For shopping in Indore there are main places as under.

MT Cloth Market for Clothings specially in wholesale
Sitlamata Bazar for retail clothings and sarees Kothari Market, A paush market with all big showrooms like Louis Phillipe, Raymond, Bombay Dying etc.
Topkhana having big showrooms for readymade garments like Agrawal stores, and Fantasy a big and popular backery shop Heritage Market, Palasia for big Show rooms loke Nike, Lee, Arrow, Van Husain, Allen Solly, Grasim, Woodlands etc. Globus, A huge departmental store by Raheja’s on MG Road

M.T.H. Compound, a big Electronic home appliances market. Card Galleries like Archies at Palasia and Hallmark near Madhumilan cinema R.N.T. Marg for Big Departmental stores like Avani, Sanskar Dress materials, Bada & Chota Sarafa Market near rajbada for All kind of jewellery, delicious sweets,chaat, namekeen shops.
Readymade garments (Moolchand) market specially for children (manu./ retail.) near Rajbada. Siyaganj, A whole sale market for hardwares , paints and food items. This area is having branches of almost all the banks. Dawa Bazar, A huge market for medicines & medical products opp.. M.Y. Hospital.

Entertainment Theatre :

Man Mandir (
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Madhumilan (
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Yeshwant (
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Smriti (
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Sapna (
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Sanjay (
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Sangeeta (
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Regal (
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Kastur (
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Jyoti (
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