Saira Banu
Saira Banu, the actress still loved for her beauty from back in the 60s. Born in 1944, as she turns 79 today, let’s look at her journey as the finest actress of Bollywood.
1961 was the year Saira Banu’s life changed forever, when she got the movie Junglee. For the first movie itself, she received Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination. Within no time, she became the charm of Bollywood, to the point she is still the wallpaper of so many phones and people still go back to watch her old movies.
In an era where women were assumed to have only beauty or brains at a time, she proved to the world that women can have both and even if they don’t, doesn’t hold them in a position to be bullied! With her winged-eyeliner gorgeousness, she made countless drool. The impact of her acting, her persona and her beauty was so magnetizing that even after so many years of remaining inactive in Bollywood, she’s celebrated every year without fail.
At the age of 22, she got married to the legendary Dilip Kumar but didn’t bear any children their whole life. They were madly in love. After Dilip Kumar’s passing too, her love for him remained immortal. Her Instagram bio and posts are still a complete dedication to her dear husband. “Hindustan ke ‘KOHINOOR’ Dilip Sahib ke liye 💞 Hamari zindagi ke andekhay aur ansunay kissey…” (For the Kohinoor of India. The untold and unseen stories of our life) says her bio and her posts speak of his trivia from when he was alive.
Saira Banu, a Mussoorie beauty did her last film Faisla in 1988. Although her career’s lifespan was short by choice, she remains unforgettable. Usually, when someone’s out of cinema for that long, their memory, their impact fades away and at a point, ceases to exist. With Saira Banu, such is not the case. On her 79th birthday, she’s afresh in our minds like she was when she did her first masterpiece at the age of 17.
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