A number of the band's tracks featured in the popular video game Far Cry 4, released in November 2014. In August 2014, Rolling Stone magazine featured The Bombay Royale in its list of '10 New Artists You Need To Know'. The band released its second music video Henna Henna in May 2014 and its second album The Island of Dr Electrico in July 2014 under the HopeStreet Recordings label. It has also played at many other major festivals including WOMAD (in Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.), Woodford Folk Festival and Sakifo Music Festival on the island of Reunion. debut, playing at GlobalFEST at Webster Hall in New York City and at The Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. In January 2014, The Bombay Royale made its U.S. and toured Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In 2013, the band was booked to play at Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. The Bombay Royale released its first album You Me Bullets Love in April 2012 and was chosen as iTunes Breakthrough World Music Album for 2012. The band's male lead, Shourov Bhattacharya, is a second generation Indian-Australian musician and entrepreneur of Bengali descent. She is a Bollywood dance teacher and is married to the band's multi-instrumentalist Josh Bennett. Parvyn Kaur Singh, the band's female lead singer, is the daughter of Dya Singh, a traditional shabad singer.
The Bombay Royale was formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 by Andy Williamson. In the middle east and india, it is used for beauty treatment and hair care. It is reported that they even used henna to color their lips and nails. Famous beauties such as nefertity and cleopatra used henna to enhance their hair color. The band composes its music collaboratively with major contributions from saxophonist and band leader Andy Williamson, keyboard player Matty Vehl, bassist Bob Knob, guitarist Tom Martin and others. the history of henna dates back to ancient egypt. The band also performs songs in English, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi. Song from the end of Better Call Saul, episode 2圆 Bali Hai, Henna Henna by The Bombay Royale Lyrics Translation: Henna I ran and arrived, I arrived I. The elephant motif, the royal architecture, the floral designs, the paisley print, the Raja Rani, the peacock motif, the swirl, coloured mehndi, etc are few famous bridal mehndi designs these days. The vocal lines and lyrics to The Bombay Royale's songs are written mostly by lead vocalist Shourov Bhattacharya in Hindi and Bengali. It is regarded as a good omen for the bride to have the henna design of the bride and groom on the hands along with the design of dhols. However, it now composes and performs its own original music, synthesizing Indian classical and folk music with Western styles such as surf, rock and disco.
Early in its career, the band performed covers of popular Hindi songs from that era such as "Jaan Pehechan Ho" and "Dum Maro Dum". The Bombay Royale is heavily inspired by the soundtracks of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood movies.
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