IFFI 2023: Catherine Zeta Jones talks about an Indian doctor saving her life and love for Shah Rukh Khan's Om Shanti Om

Hollywood veterans Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones are currently in India for the International Film Festival of India. Jones, while speaking at the festival, made many unheard and unexpected revelations about her life and the love she has for the movies. When an Indian doctor saved her life The story I’ve never told before is that 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. I wonder why when I come to India, I have this feeling of coming home, and maybe it has something to do with that. The reason I’m here is because of the brilliance of an Indian doctor in the UK. Her love for Indian films like Om Shanti Om and The Lunchbox I love the country and the people so very much. I am a big fan of Indian Cinema. My children have grown up watching Om Shanti Om on a loop! Not just once… There are so many great movies that I have been able to watch, not much as I should have but now with streaming and film being crossing so much… A movie that I love was The Lunchbox. It was one of my favourite movies and it still is one of my favourite movies of all time. It touched me, it was so well acted, so well directed. It was a story that was so fundamentally Indian but it connected to men and women all over the world. It connected to me as a woman. I watched it on an airplane twice! I asked my agent if I could meet him in person and I did and that was really special