LOS ANGELES: Oscar nominated Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, who has been nominated for an Oscar in the best actress category for her role in the Spanish movie Volver, is very keen on Indian movies and says she would love to work opposite Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

Cruz expressed her respect for the Indian megastar's great body of work, saying, "I am a great fan of Indian cinema and I would love to work with Shah Rukh Khan."

"I love India. I have the rights to a book and we are going to shoot the movie in India," Cruz added at a party she hosted, which was attended by other Hollywood A-list stars, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Salma Hayek and Edward Norton.

The English-language film, which is a screen adaptation of Javier Moro's original novel "Pasion India", will have Cruz will playing the lead.

Moro's book was inspired by the true story of 17-year-old Spanish flamenco dancer Anita Delgado who scandalised people in the early 1900s when she agreed to marry an Indian king, Maharaja Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, and settle in his native land.