We Love It: Catherine Zeta-Jones’ “Favourite” Film Is Om Shanti Om, Starring Shah Rukh Khan

She has seen it many times, as has her son and his classmates from school. Along with “The Lunch Box,” Catherine Zeta-Jones lists “Om Shanti Om,” starring Shah Rukh Khan, as one of her favorite movies. The Hollywood diva, who will be receiving the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the festival’s closing ceremony on Tuesday, went to the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on Monday together with her actor husband Michael Douglas. Zeta-Jones also like Ritesh Batra’s epistolary romance “The Lunchbox,” which starred Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Nimrat Kaur, and the late Irrfan Khan.

As a singer and dancer, I have always been a big lover of Bollywood, and as such, I dreamed that maybe the British film industry would develop Bollywood-style films and I could be cast for them,” she said to reporters at this location. The star claimed to have shown her son “Om Shanti Om,” one of her all-time favorite films. “And he said, ‘You want to watch a movie from India, it’s my mom’s favorite movie,’ to his boys’ younger friends when they arrived. We adore it and have seen it several times.

Zeta-Jones said that “The Lunchbox” is one of her “favourite movies of all time,” thus if she were to make a movie in India, she would love to be in it.

The actress of “The Mask of Zoro” said that she discovered the film while on a lengthy journey abroad. She remembered, “I watched it twice back-to-back.” The 54-year-old actor claimed to have met the film’s director when he was in London. “I’m still holding out hope that he may write me another lunch box. I really like that film. As a European lady, it struck a chord with me since it was such a classic Indian film, the woman said.

“India is very dear to our hearts,” the actress said while discussing her visit to India for IFFI. We have visited this place a few times, and each time we have been greeted with such warmth.

The actress also related a personal account of how, at the age of eighteen months, an Indian doctor saved her life. “India has had a very intimate impact on me… When I was eighteen months old, an Indian physician performed a tracheotomy on me, saving my life. She recollected how she had been breathless owing to a sickness and added, “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.” I am here in the first place because of the genius of an Indian physician in Swansea, South Wales, UK. So eternally obliged to him,” the star remarked, displaying the scar from the surgery on the front of her neck.