Veteran actress Saira Banu is back in the headlines following her Instagram debut. The Padosan actress ruled the hearts of movie lovers for over a decade. She garnered a lot of accolades by proving her mettle in acting. Moreover, she has left an ever-lasting impression in everyone’s mind as the epitome of beauty that Bollywood has ever got.
Admirers are quite elated after the veteran actress made her social media debut. Moreover, Saira is taking everyone on a nostalgic journey by sharing lesser-known tales about her husband and legendary actor Dilip Kumar and herself.
On Tuesday, Saira shared an interesting story about her husband and his spirit to become the country’s best sportsman. Moreover, she also mentioned how Dilip Kumar trained her to bow and how she dismissed eight batsmen in a cricket match.
Sharing a picture of Dilip Kumar while batting, Saira wrote: I always love to see this photograph as I know of his yearning as a youngster to become the country's best sportsman! However, The Almighty and Fate had fashioned a very different destiny for Mohammed Yousuf Khan… at that time, every evening after college he always went to the grounds behind the Metro Cinema to play cricket and football with passion. With other like-minded sports enthusiasts...
Her post further read: Sahibji sweetly narrated to me how with great excitement he purchased his first cricket bat and sports shoes from a shop near Metro Cinema...! The athletic side of Dilip Sahib was so strong while in school and college that he emerged a winner and victorious also in every 200 meters race.
Recollecting the funny incident when Dilip Kumar trained her bowling for a match, Saira wrote: A funny incident I recollect was when we were just married....
Further, she narrated the incident: Once all the film stars got together to play a benefit cricket match.... Sahib ji trained me for a week-long in our garden for bowling… we were to play in Dilip Kumar Sahib's Team and Raj Kapoor Saab's team....With my bowling… can you believe I bowled the captain out first ball…to which Raj ji could not stop laughing "Arrey, yeh ladki toh serious ho gayi hai"...eventually I bowled out 8 of them.
Well, this is certainly an interesting story of the most celebrated and respected actor couple in the Bollywood industry.