Saira Banu or Bano, one of the most beautiful and talented veteran actress of India, celebrates her birthday today, August 23. She is the wife of yesteryear’s star Dilip Kumar who shone in the Hindi film industry for almost three decades.
Saira Banu plunged into acting when she was just 17 years old. Her first film starred the heartthrob of then, Shammi Kapoor in the film Junglee. This was in the year 1961. Her first film itself got her nominated for the Filmfare awards for the category of ‘Best Actress’. That was the starting as well as the turning point of her career and she had no chance to look back then.
Other films that are still counted as one of the bests are ‘Bluff master’, ‘Shagird’, ‘Padosan’ – this was a multi starrer film of that time, that included the big names like Kishore Kumar, Mahmood, Sunil Dutt, Om Prakash, etc., Purab aur Paschim and many more.
Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar married in the year 1980 with loads of controversies hovering on them. That was also the time when she almost called quits to films but officially she ended her career in 1988 with a film called ‘Faisla’.
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