Ships built for ‘Thugs of Hindostan’ to be auctioned

Film sets are always a wonder with the way so much time is taken to build one for it to only be destroyed later. However, with a film like ‘Thugs of Hindostan’ things have turned out a little differently. Having built ships as sets for the film’s shooting, news has it that as these cannot be destroyed the will be auctioned.

“You cannot hire ships for action sequences as they can get damaged. So the makers had to get two ships built for the film. Another reason they had them custom-made is that today’s ships are considerably different from the ones used in the era in which the film is based. If ships were hired, they would need to be modified quite a bit,” Asian Age reports a source explaining.

They went on to add, “Hollywood films like 300, which also had a war at sea, have had special ships designed for their shoots. Normally, such ships are dismantled after filming because they cannot be retained as memorabilia due to space constraints. But we hear that the Thugs of Hindostan ships may be auctioned through the film’s star cast.”

Starring Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Sheikh, Amitabh Bahchan, Ronit Roy and Katrina Kaif, ‘Thugs of Hindostan’ is set to hit the big screens on 7th  November.