The idea was to set the opera in New Orleans rather than Italy to bring in freshness and mixing it up with a little bollywood by making Romeo ethnically Indian. Along with that, adding both festivals 'Mardi Gras' and 'Diwali'. The design of the set is heavily dependent on inculcating all the locations of the opera into one huge villa whose architecture is New Orleans style and creating a symmetry which gives the iconic seperation scene and both Romeo and Juliet are facing each other on different levels of the villa. Most parts of the acts are done in the courtyard and there are private, semi private and public spaces in the set.