Saira Banu makes Instagram debut on ‘Kohinoor’ Dilip Kumar’s death anniversary, pens note: ‘He is with me, we still walk the path of life together’

Saira Banu joined Instagram on Dilip Kumar's second death anniversary and shared a note in his memory.

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Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar were married for over 55 years. (Photo: Saira Banu/Instagram)

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Late actor Dilip Kumar’s wife Saira Banu on Friday made her Instagram debut on the occasion of his second death anniversary. Saira shared a few photos of the couple and wrote an emotional note in his memory. Calling him her ‘Kohinoor‘, she expressed her “gratitude to the overwhelming multitude of caring well-wishers and dearest friends from the world over who have so tremendously swept me off my feet till today with their everlasting remembrance, love and respect” for Dilip Kumar.

A part of her note read, “This is the day, ‘7th of July’ at ‘7 am’ when time stood still and my loved one slid into a deep slumber. I pleaded with the Almighty that, ‘Sahib’, as I always called him should react to one of his favourite couplets.” She shared the couplet in Urdu and its translation as well, which read, “My loved one is in slumber so my entire world is still, I implore him to stir awake so that the world comes alive again with his movement of waking up.”

Saira wrote that she can feel the presence of Dilip with her and said that “no matter what, we will still walk the path of life together, hand in hand, one in our thoughts and being until the end of time.” She called the late actor an “iconic guiding light” for many generations and said that he just wasn’t the “greatest actor ever but also a very great human being.”

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Saira also shared a note with News18 and said that she is yet to come to terms with the fact that he is not around anymore because she “can feel him all the time.” She said that the only time she stepped out was in December when a film festival honouring Dilip Kumar’s memory was held in Mumbai. She wrote that she finds it difficult to watch his films and songs on screen, and in particular, she had a hard time watching Devdas as that was the film which made her fall in love with him at the age of 12. “It was with great difficulty and a major effort to sit through Devdas. It was probably the first film that I saw of him and fell in love,” she said.

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She wrote that she feels the “emptiness” and breaks down and added, “At the cost of sounding crazy, I have a gut feeling of his presence around me. Having said that, I feel fortunate to spend more than five decades experiencing supreme bliss and spending some unforgettable moments with the person I loved the most.”

Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar shared a wonderful marriage that lasted 55 years. Dilip Kumar passed away in 2021 at 98.

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