Mumbai, Oct 11 Veteran Hindi film actress Saira Banu on Friday shared some pictures on the social media platform Instagram on her 58th wedding anniversary in which her late husband and Hindi cinema veteran actor Dilip Kumar is seen with her.
The actress shared four photos on Instagram. In the last picture, she is resting on a hospital bed and is alone.
The actress also wrote a long note 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 it would never end.”
she wrote. “I was so lost in my dreams that day 58 years ago that if someone said, ‘Saira, you have wings and you can fly’, I would have believed it. Our wedding was beautiful, yet wonderfully chaotic. There was nothing extraordinary about it.”
She said her wedding lehenga was stitched at a local tailor’s shop and their families did not even have time to get the wedding invitations printed as everything was done so quickly.
“If we had more time, my mother, Pari Chehra Naseem Banu, would have left no stone unturned. She would have brought in a parade of designers, jewellers and who knows what. The nikaah was originally scheduled for November but due to some reasons, we had to expedite it. Dilip sahab called my mother from Kolkata and said, ‘You call a maulvi and get the nikaah done.’ Still, the day was full of fun moments,” she said.
She added, “Dilip sahab and I lived very close to each other and when the baraat arrived at my bungalow, his mare was descending the slope and the umbrella on it hit ‘sahab’s’ sehra. While we were completing the rituals, a crowd of fans barged into my house on their own, knowing that their favourite actor was getting married.”
She said there were so many people that it took them two hours to get down from the top floor to perform the nikah rituals.
Saira Banu wrote, “And, believe it or not, we also ran out of food. Imagine, running out of food at the wedding of one of the greatest actors ever! And the self-invited fans were collecting wedding memorabilia from downstairs, whatever they could find: a spoon, a fork. Oh, it was so much fun.”
