Actress Saira Banu got emotional remembering the actor when she visited her late husband Dilip Kumar to receive the ‘Bharat Ratna Dr. Ambedkar Award’. She cried while accepting the award and said, ‘She is still here’. Let us tell you that on Tuesday, Saira Banu reached an event to collect the award given to Dilip Kumar. In the program, the actress called Dilip Kumar a Kohinoor and said that he should also be honored with the Bharat Ratna.
This video of Saira Banu is going viral on social media. In this video, Saira is shown posing for pictures with Union Minister Ramdas Athawale. Saira is seen making sure that the photographs feature her and her late husband, along with the Union minister, in the poster behind. After this, when Ramdas Athawale discussed Dilip Kumar, Saira sobbed. Saira said that this is the reason why she avoids going to occasions as it makes her emotional.
Conversing with the press at the event, Saira said that she feels that Dilip is still near her and watching everything. Discussing Bharat Ratna for the late actor, Saira said, “It should be honoured to him thus because Dilip Sahab has been ‘Kohinoor’ for Hindustan. So ‘Kohinoor’ should get Bharat Ratna.” She reiterated, “He is still here. He is not in my memories, I believe it is true that he is with me every step of the way, because that is how I will be able to live my life. I will never think that he is not.” Here he is with me, he will always be my support – my Kohinoor.
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Let us tell you their love story of them. Saira Banu gave her heart to Dilip Kumar when she was only 12 years old. Dilip Kumar tried to convince her to see the age gap between them but Saira wanted to Marry Dilip Kumar only and in 1966 both got married secretly. In the autobiography of Dilip Kumar it is written that Saira also became pregnant but The child died before birth and After that Saira can never become a mother again.
Dilip Kumar died at the age of 98 on the morning of 7th July 2021. He had been ill for a long time. Dilip Kumar breathed his last at Hinduja Hospital in Khar, Mumbai. There was a wave of mourning in the whole Bollywood industry due to his death.