I am not trying to be a martyr, I am trying to tell you the actuality that I was totally involved with him. My life centred around him from morning till night. 'I have had several visits to the hospital. The 77-year-old has been in and out of hospitals since Kumar's death. Emotionally, I am not well and that reflects on my health,' she further added.

Saira Banu said she misses him every day. Today, a year has gone by and I am trying (but) in vain to move on,' she added. He had his own way of consoling me and also subtly asserting that life has to go on and no mortal is immortal. 'I had the courage to move on then because I had the tender care and strong emotional support of Yousuf saheb.He had his own way of telling me to come to terms with the inevitable and insurmountable hardships and losses in my life. Kumar, whose real name was Mohammad Yousuf Khan, was the Nehruvian hero who embodied the hopes and dreams of a new India and went on to become a star that glittered brightly in a series of hits over seven decades.Īccording to his devoted wife, it was Kumar who helped her deal with the loss of her grandmother, Hindustani classical vocalist Shamshad Begum Sahiba, her mother Naseem Banu, India's first beauty queen-actor, and brother Sultan Ahmed. We will get together to meditate and pray that his soul rests in peace and that he may be in the best place of Jannat with his God,' she added.

'We will have a prayer meeting with our family and close friends, who remembered the day when we lost him. Many such memories will be stirred today, a year since he passed away at the age of 98. These are just a fistful of vivid memories that the veteran actor recounts of her husband she had idolised since she was 12. The twinkle in his eyes, his love for Hindustani classical music, and his fondness for special tea poured from an equally special piece of crockery. Remembering the legendary actor #DilipKumar on his birth anniversary. He may have been Dilip Kumar, amongst the few etched into the annals of cinema with roles in films such as ' Mughal-e-Azam' and ' Shakti', but for Saira Banu, he was her ' saheb'. Give me all the wealth in the world and Dilip saheb on one side, and I would want Dilip saheb,' Saira Banu said in an interview here. You just cannot replace some people in your life. 'My life is ' pheeka' without Yousuf saheb. Doctors have advised her to mix with people but that is a 'difficult thing' despite her efforts to move on, Saira Banu said on Dilip Kumar's first death anniversary.

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