Dia attends egg-breaking fest in Bangkok

Dia Mirza helped give birth to a crocodile! The actress attended the croc egg-breaking festival at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Bangkok recently.

“It was indeed a strange experience,” says Dia, currently shooting for Suparn Verma’s Acid Factory in Hyderabad. “You don’t normally have reptiles in your palms and here I was, holding a baby croc.”

The actress took part in the egg-breaking festival as part of the recent IIFA weekend in Bangkok. “There were scores of croc eggs, most of them already cracked. Along with the caretaker, I had to get the baby crocodile out of the shell and cut the umbilical cord. Then we have to bathe them in warm water!”

It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Says Dia, “First the eggs are all sticky and full of goo. Then the baby croc that pops out is smeared in blood. So you can well imagine what it is like handling all this stuff. And to think that you’re handling a crocodile, so what if it is a newborn!”

She describes this birth experience, where she had to sanitise her hands before the delivery, as “an eerie feeling. I helped in giving birth to one croc and that was enough for me!”