New Delhi: Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar’s love story is one of the popular love stories of Bollywood. The actress continues to narrate stories related to her husband even after a few years of his passing. She refreshed old memories by sharing photos with Dilip Kumar on her 58th marriage anniversary. The actress shared four photos on Instagram. In the last picture, she is resting on the hospital bed and looks alone.
Saira Banu also wrote a long note while captioning the photo, in which she talked in detail about her relationship with Dilip Kumar. He wrote, ‘An old memory of my dream wedding 58 years ago. When ‘Do stars ka zameen par hai milan aaj ki raat’ kept playing on the radio the whole night of 11th October. Our wedding anniversary is a day that I wished would never end.
Saira further wrote, ‘That day 58 years ago, I was so lost in imagination that if someone had said that ‘Saira has come to you and you can fly’, I would have believed it. Our wedding was gorgeous, yet equally gorgeously messy. There was nothing extraordinary in this. They told that their wedding lehenga was stitched at a local tailor shop and their families did not even have time to get the wedding invitations printed as everything happened very quickly.
(Photo courtesy: Instagram@sairabanu)
A crowd of fans had entered the house
Saira said, ‘If we had more time, my mother Pari Chehra Naseem Banu would have left no stone unturned. She would organize parades of designers, jewelers and who knows who else. Earlier the marriage was to take place in November, but due to some reasons we had to hurry it up. Dilip Sahab called my mother from Kolkata and said, ‘You call a Maulvi and get the Nikah performed. Still, the day was full of fun moments. Dilip Sahab and I lived very close to each other and when the wedding procession reached my bungalow, his mare was descending the slope due to which the umbrella attached to it started hitting ‘Sahab’s’ face. When we were completing the rituals, a crowd of fans themselves entered my house, they had come to know that their favorite actor was getting married.
There was shortage of food at the wedding
The actress told that there were so many people that it took two hours for her to come down from the upper floor to perform the rituals of Nikah. Saira Banu finally wrote, ‘Believe it or not, we also ran out of food. Imagine, there was a shortage of food at the wedding of one of the greatest actors of all time! And fans who invited themselves were down there collecting wedding memorabilia, whatever they could find: a spoon, a fork. Oh, it was so much fun.’
Tags: Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu
FIRST PUBLISHED: October 11, 2024, 23:37 IST
