After shooting for 'Thugs of Hindostan', Aamir Khan found this spicy connect between India and Malta!

After shooting extensively on the high seas in Malta for their upcoming film, Thugs Of Hindostan, Aamir Khan and writer-director Vijay Krishna Acharya aka Victor found that India and the European island nation have a unique connect. Says a source from the film’s unit, “Malta is home to Camino Island, a famous spot known for its pristine blue lagoon and visually stunning scenery. While researching locally, Victor found that the name, Camino, actually comes from cumin — a term to denote jeera, the Indian spice. In the late medieval era, when sea faring and the spice trade with India had picked up pace with Spain, the Netherlands and rest of Europe, Indian spices were traded at extremely high prices and were sought after. As Malta was an outpost for this trade, cumin became a reference point for such trading ships. This unique bit of history intrigued Victor and Aamir a fair bit. Always a history buff, Aamir actually made a trip to this lagoon, a popular local holiday spot, to see it and explore on foot.” The source adds that slices of history from India’s sea faring past overlap with local folklore in Malta often, which made the entire shoot schedule in the island quite interesting for the film’s crew.