IFFI 2023: Catherine Zeta-Jones Reveals An Indian Doctor Had Once Saved Her Life

At a press conference of IFFI, Catherine said that she has a feeling of “coming home” whenever she visits India. The Oscar-winning actor revealed that an Indian doctor had saved her life when she was just 18 months old.?

Zeta-Jones said, “Actually, a story that I have never told before. India has touched me in a very serious personal way. It was an Indian doctor who saved my life with a tracheotomy when I was 18 months old. So, I wonder why when I come to India, I have this feeling of coming home and this is like… a tingly feeling. And maybe there’s something to do with that. But, the reason why I am actually here is because of the brilliance of an Indian doctor in Swansea, South Wales in the UK, so I am forever indebted to him.”

She also revealed?Shah Rukh Khan's 'Om Shanti Om' is?one of her favourite movies and also of her son's. Zeta-Jones said: “I have always been a huge fan of Bollywood. And being a singer and a dancer, I dreamed that maybe the British film industry would do a Bollywood-type film and I would be cast. But, it wasn’t (to be). I would love to be part of something in the film industry.''

The 'Chicago' actress also said that Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Irrfan Khan starrer 'The Lunchbox' is also her favourite. ''I came upon it on a long international flight and I watched it twice, back-to-back. I am a big fan of that movie (and) it touched me in a sense of being such a quintessential Indian movie. It just touched me as a European woman so, so much,'' she added.?

On Tuesday, Michael Douglas will be conferred with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in World Cinema at IFFI, Goa.?