To compose the set-design of 'India - A Love Story', the next telenovela from TV Globo, with a debut set for January, set-designer for the production, Mario Monteiro, intensely researched in the country, and opted to construct typical Indian monuments, almost full-size. "The real challenge was to extract the essence of the country, but not to stick with something obvious and stereotyped', he commented.

All in all, the telenovela will have 3 set-designed cities and a studio that will represent the interior of a hotel in Dubai. The house of the main characters is located in the main city. "In this setting, we made a collage of various Indian buildings", the set-designer points out. The plot still requires a bazaar, a public laundry, a well, a large cinema, 5 temples, palaces - one of them, the Wind Palace, 22 meters high - and even the Mumbai hotel, recently attacked by terrorists. "We'll reproduce architecture from 5 cities. Any Indian coming to visit will find it most unusual."

Constructed inside a lake in an area covering 2,000 m² at the Projac - TV Globo's production center - the stretch of the Ganges River, with its 11 m high staircases, was faithfully reconstructed in the second set-designed city. Filming has already taken place there, and also at the third city, which depicts the Lapa neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro.
 
'India - A Love Story' was written by Gloria Perez, author of 'The Clone', and will be available on the international market shortly.