One fine evening, he flew down to Mumbai and took Saira Banu out for dinner at the Taj Hotel's Sea Lounge ( in south Mumbai), followed by a drive to the Cuffe Parade seafront where the most eligible bachelor of his time proposed to the Beauty Queen. If ever there was a whirlwind romance in Hindi film industry, it had to be Dilip and Saira's.īack in Chennai, Dilip Saheb kept regularly phoning Saira ji while she was shooting at Mehboob Studios for the Lekh Tandon-directed Jhuk Gaya Asmaan. His predictions were coming true, he felt. He also said the girl would be from his profession only. Later, ushered into the spacious drawing room of Saira's house, Dilip Kumar met many of his friends such as Dev Anand, Rajendra Kumar, music directors Shankar and Jaikishen, Manoj Kumar, Fali Mistry, Subodh Mukerji, R K Nayyar, etc, and exchanged pleasantries.īut Dilip Saheb's mind went racing back to the year 1955 when film-maker S S Vasan had introduced him to an astrologer in Coimbatore who had predicted that he would marry in his forties and the girl would be extremely beautiful but half his age. The celestial stars smiled on the star-pair and the moment froze. They looked into each other's eyes and that was it.
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She had indeed grown to full womanhood and was in reality more beautiful than I thought she was.'Īs Dilip Kumar shook hands with Saira Banu and congratulated her, time stood still and in that very propitious moment Dilip Kumar found his wife and Saira, her husband. 'I was taken aback because she was no longer the young girl I had consciously avoided working with because I thought she would look too young to be my heroine. To quote Dilip Saheb, 'When I alighted from my car and entered the beautiful garden that leads to the house, I can still recall my eyes falling on Saira standing in the foyer of her new house looking breathtakingly beautiful in a brocade sari.
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But, the movie never took off.ĭilip Kumar was in Chennai shooting for Ram Aur Shyam when he received an invitation from Naseem Aapa ( Saira's mother, actress Naseem Banu) to attend Saira's birthday bash in Mumbai on August 23, 1966.ĭilip Saheb decided to specially fly down to attend the event which later turned out to be the one that changed the course of his life. Nevertheless, at that juncture, Dilip Kumar did confide in S Mukherjee that he wanted to cast Saira in a subject specially written for her in a film titled Song Of The Valley, which was set in the backdrop of the picturesque Kashmir valley. On the other hand, Dilip Saheb kept sounding clapper boards at the mahurats of Saira Banu's films.ĭilip Kumar kept on working with heroines matching his age and maturity. Saira Banu kept sending frequent requests to Dilip Kumar via some popular producers for doing a film with her.
All photographs: Kind courtesy M/s Kanika Multiscope Pvt Ltd/Dilip Kumar: Peerless Icon Inspiring Generations, Bloomsbury India
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