New Delhi: The love story of Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar is one of the most famous love stories of Bollywood. The actress keeps telling stories related to her husband even a few years after his death. 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 photo, she is resting on a 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. She wrote, 'An old memory of my dream wedding 58 years ago. When 'Do Sitaron Ka Zameen Par Hai Milan Aaj Ki Raat' kept playing on the radio all night of October 11. Our wedding anniversary is a day that I wished would never end.'
Saira further wrote, '58 years ago I was so lost in my fantasies that day that if someone said 'Saira, you have grown wings and you can fly', I would have believed it. Our wedding was beautiful, equally wonderfully chaotic. There was nothing extraordinary in it. ' She said that her wedding lehenga was stitched at a local tailor shop and their families did not even have time to get the wedding invitation cards printed, because everything was done very quickly.
(Photo courtesy: Instagram@sairabanu)
Crowds 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 have arranged a parade of designers, jewelers, and God knows what else. Initially,, the Nikaah was to happen in November, but due to some reasons,, we had to hurry up. Dilip Sahab called my mother from Kolkata and said, 'You call a Maulvi and get the Nikaah done.' Still, this day was full of fun moments. Dilip Sahab and I lived very close to each other and when the baraat reached my bungalow, his mare was coming down the slope due to which the umbrella on it started hitting 'Sahab's' sera. When we were completing the rituals, a crowd of fans entered my house on their own, they had come to know that their favorite actor was getting married.
There was a shortage of food at the wedding.
The actress said that there were so many people that it took them two hours to come down from the upper floor to perform the Nikaah rituals. 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! And the fans who invited themselves were collecting wedding memorabilia from below, whatever they could find: a spoon, a fork. Oh, it was so much fun.'
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