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New Delhi: Pageant of Janmashtami will all the time stay particular to veteran actress Saira Banu. On the event of Janmashtami, Saira Banu dropped a video of herself singing ‘Kanha’ tune from her movie ‘Shagird’. Within the caption, she talked about that it was a coincidence that she had filmed the tune on the identical day because the pageant.
Banu recalled that she was capturing at Filmistan Studios together with the actor Nazir Hussain. On the similar time, Nazir was additionally working in Chennai with Dilip Kumar on the movie ‘Ram Aur Shyam’.
Dealing with date conflicts, Nazir Hussain, a famend character actor who performed a pivotal function in each their lives, shuttled between the 2 units. Nazir handled her like household, they usually obtained alongside properly on set.
On that Janmashtami evening, as Saira Banu sang a bhajan in entrance of a serene Lord Krishna statue to Lataji’s enchanting playback, she could not resist her playful spirit. She requested Nazir Hussain to ship a message to Dilip Sahab.
“Nazir Sahab handled me like his personal child and vibed very simply on the units with me. As I sang the Bhajan on Janmashtami evening in entrance of a good looking statue of Lord Krishna with Lataji’s melodious enthralling voice within the playback, I turned to Nazir Sahab and with a mischievous smile on my face requested him for a favour! ‘You’re working with Dilip Sahab, Oh! You’re so fortunate sufficient to be working with Dilip Sahab. Please inform him that Saira is dying to work with him, and if he doesn’t, then ask him to marry me!’. Nazir Sahab was dumb-struck after which he rolled backward and forward with the resounding laughter that he was well-known for. So Nazir Sahab travelled to Madras the subsequent morning and dutifully conveyed my impudent message to the Shahenshah. Dilip Sahab, I’m advised, gracefully smiled and acknowledged my cheeky message, to in all probability cowl his embarrassment gracefully —- though I believe you would have knocked him down with a feather,” she recalled.
‘The subsequent night Nazir Sahab got here onto the set of ‘SHAGIRD’ to shoot with me and advised me that he had conveyed to Dilip Sahab my precise imploring message. ………. ‘Dilip Sahab there’s a Gudiya who’s loopy about you;! Surprise of wonders we completed the Janmashtami tune and might you imagine it inside the subsequent few days it so occurred that Dilip Sahab walked into my life, gazed into my eyes and requested my grandmother and mom for my Hand in marriage,” she added.
Saira Banu described this extraordinary flip of occasions as nothing wanting a miracle, and followers of the enduring couple proceed to be enchanted by their timeless love story.
