Earlier this week, veteran actor Michael Douglas acquired the honorary Palme d’Or on the 76th Cannes Film Festival. He not too long ago additionally attended a session on the India Pavilion with minister of state for info and broadcasting L Murugan, the place the actor acquired an invite for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, which shall be held in November. Also learn: Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones explore India

Michael Douglas was additionally felicitated on the India Pavilion in Cannes 2023. The actor stated he has been to India earlier than together with his spouse, actor Catherine Zeta-Jones. He stated she loves the nation and is a ‘fairly good Bollywood dancer’. Michael additional stated he needed to go to the south of India on his subsequent journey to the nation. He needed to cowl the realm ‘from Hyderabad to Goa’.

“I have been to India now three times. I always had a wonderful, wonderful experience. I have been very impressed with the energy, the imagination, and the creativity. As somebody, who watches the news and current events, India is hot. India is rocking. You can see it’s moving… Actually my wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) will be sad as she is not here (at India Pavilion) because she loves India and she is a pretty good Bollywood dancer, too. We have not been down south. So, we want to go to south from Hyderabad to Goa, to go around that area on our next trip,” Michael stated in video from the occasion that was shared by Brut India.

Last 12 months, National Award-winning director Shailendra Singh, who additionally moderated Michael’s session at India Pavilion, had launched the the second a part of his characteristic collection, Unplugged Cinema.

The undertaking, titled Unplugged in Mumbai, featured Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The two had spoken about their love for India in it as they explored Mumbai. It additionally confirmed Michael and Catherine recreating Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s poses from their 2007 movie Om Shanti Om, as Catherine revealed, “I am a big Bollywood fan.” The movie was launched in July 2022.