One of the most loved actresses of her time Saira Banu clocks her 78th birthday on Tuesday. Saira Banu was just 12 when she fell in love with Dilip Kumar, who was already a big star at that time. The actor was 34. In 1960, during the premiere of Mughal-e-Azam, a 16-year-old Saira was expecting to meet her crush for the first time. However, when the actor didn't turn up for the premiere, the actress was shattered.
Saira Banu on her 78 th Birthday in an interview said,  “I am fortunate that messages from Dilip saab’s well-wishers have started to pour in from the last few days. There have been many who are also calling to wish me as they don’t want me to feel alone and lonely. My relatives and friends are all getting in touch with me to wish me a happy birthday. But without Dilip saab, I can’t have a happy birthday. It just cannot be the same happiness and the same life that I used to live when he was around."
In an earlier interview Saira speaking about her love life said, "When he smiled at me and remarked that I was a pretty girl, I could feel my whole being taking wing and flying rapturously. I knew somewhere deep within me that I was going to be his wife."
Dilip Kumar also in her Biopic wrote about her love live, "When I alighted from my car and entered the beautiful garden that leads to the house, I can still recall my eyes falling on Saira standing in the foyer of her new house looking breathtakingly beautiful in a brocade sari. I was taken aback because she was no longer the young girl I consciously avoided working with because I thought she would look too young to be my heroine.”

Laal Singh Chadddha Boxoffice: Beats Kashmir Files and Bhool Bhuliya Globally

Video!! Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s first Look from Haddi as a Glamorous woman is going Viral

Video!! Fake Fundraising in the name of Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par hain Actor Deepesh Bhan, Cast warns