Late actor Dilip Kumar’s 101st birth anniversary was observed on December 11. The legendary actor dominated the Indian cinema from late 1940s throughout 60s. His wife, veteran actress Saira Banu, shared a heartfelt post on Instagram including a clip from Dilip Kumar’s past birthdays featuring many Bollywood icons including Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and the late Rishi Kapoor. Here’s Saira Banu‘s heartwarming post…
“Once more it is December the 11th, the day of days when the skies are blue with a smattering of dreams like puffy white clouds that seem to be dancing in the skies with happiness and exaltation. The whole house used to be flooded with so many flowers…that it seemed as though we had stepped into the “Garden Of Eden”. Now the Birthday greetings and cheer keep pouring in with messages of love and remembrance in a million ways, be it through offerings of beautiful Sketches, Cards, Paintings and umpteen messages of love and dedication that give me emotional goose pimples,” Saira Banu wrote in the caption of the Instagram post.
“Likewise, on Sahib’s birthday, I would procure the most exquisite and carefully selected greeting cards to honor his special day. As a man as remarkably extraordinary as Dilip Sahib, he deserved nothing less. I always tried to be a devoted wife to him, and I found immense joy in his chivalrous nature, which unfailingly filled my life with happiness,” Saira Banu added in the heartfelt post. Popularly referred to as “Abhinay Samrat”, Dilip Kumar was voted the “Greatest Indian Actor of All Time” in a Rediff Readers poll in 2011. He also holds the Guinness World Record for having received the most awards by an Indian actor.