Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar married in 1966, when she was 22 and he was 44. The couple shared a life filled with love and respect, though they did not have children.
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Bollywood veteran Saira Banu recently took a trip down memory lane as she celebrated her engagement anniversary with legendary actor Dilip Kumar.
The actress shared an emotional post on Instagram.
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Accompanying her note were a series of black-and-white photographs of the couple from the day of their engagement. In her heartfelt caption, Saira wrote about the kind of love that goes beyond words and reason.
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“What, indeed, is the purest love, if not faith? A faith so deep in one’s beloved that all inclination to question, to doubt, or to weigh affection upon scales of reason, simply dissolves,” she expressed.
She continued to reminisce about the day she became engaged to Dilip Kumar. “It was upon this very day, the 2nd of October, 1966, that my heart bound itself irrevocably to my one true love, my dearest Dilip Sahib. And from that moment hence, I never questioned, nor did I find reason to. In times of happiness, in seasons of grief, and in the quietude of our everyday hours, I simply loved.”
Saira also shared Dilip Kumar’s own thoughts on love, quoting the actor: “Pyaar mein mohabbat hai, mohabbat mein junoon hai, aur junoon mein zindagi.” She explained that, for the legendary actor, love was not about conditions or expectations. It was about complete surrender and devotion.
Calling this devotion the foundation of their bond, Saira wrote, “It bears no burden, harbours no suspicion, entertains no expectation. Instead, it grants the sweetest liberty of all, the liberty to devote oneself entirely.”
She reflected on how this unconditional love shaped their relationship. “And in that devotion, I discovered the essence of love as it was meant to be: unconditional and enduring, a flame neither time nor circumstance could diminish. And today, when I love back… I see two souls living wholeheartedly, loving solely! Happy Engagement Anniversary to US,” she concluded.
Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar married in 1966, when she was 22 and he was 44. The couple shared a life filled with love and respect, though they did not have children.
In his autobiography, Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow, Kumar revealed that Saira had conceived in 1972, but unfortunately suffered a miscarriage due to complications.
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