Image Instagrammed by Saira Banu. (Courtesy:sairabanu )

New Delhi:

Veteran actress Saira Banu may be new to Instagram however her posts are full of nostalgia and are a recollection of her time spent with the late actor and her husband Dilip Kumar. Ever since her debut on the photo-sharing app, the actress has been doling out some treasured photos of herself and her late husband and truthfully, we aren’t complaining. On Tuesday additionally, the actress did nothing completely different. Sharing a monochrome picture of a younger Dilip Kumar, enjoying cricket, Saira Banu revealed that the Devdas actor as soon as wished to grow to be a cricketer.

In an elaborate caption, Saira Banu talked about Dilip Kumar’s tryst with cricket in his youthful days. She wrote, “I always love to see this photograph as I know of his yearning as a youngster to become the country’s best sportsman! However, The Almighty and Fate had fashioned a very different destiny for Mohammed Yousuf Khan… at that time, every evening after college he always went to the grounds behind the Metro Cinema to play cricket and football with passion. With other like-minded sports enthusiasts… Sahibji sweetly narrated to me how with great excitement he purchased his first cricket bat and sports shoes from a shop near Metro Cinema…!”

She continued, “The athletic side of Dilip Sahib was so strong while in school and college that he emerged a winner and victorious also in every 200 meters race.”

Taking the chance, Saira Banu also recalled an incident from the times once they had been simply married and the way she had actually “bowled” over everybody along with her cricket-playing expertise. She wrote, “A funny incident I recollect was when we were just married…

Once all the film stars got together to play a benefit cricket match… Sahib ji trained me for a week-long in our garden for bowling… we were to play in Dilip Kumar Sahib’s Team and Raj Kapoor Saab’s team…With my bowling… can you believe I bowled the captain out first ball…to which Raj ji could not stop laughing “Arrey, yeh ladki toh severe ho gayi hai”…eventually I bowled out 8 of them.”

The submit grew to become an instantaneous hit with actor Sanjay Dutt’s sister Priya Dutt commenting, “Wow what super memories, thanks for sharing Saira aunty.”

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Veteran actress Saira Banu made her Instagram debut on her late husband, legendary Dilip Kumar’s second dying anniversary. Her first submit was devoted to the celebrity. She started the submit with the verse, “Sukoon-E-Dil Ke Liye Kuch Toh Ehtemaam Karoon, Zara Nazar Jo Miley Phir Unhe Salaam Karoon, Mujhe Toh Hosh Nahin Aap Mashwara Dijiyey, Kaha Se Chedoon Fasana Kahan Tamaam Karoon” and wrote, “I am writing this note on the 7th of July to especially express my gratitude to the overwhelming multitude of caring well-wishers and dearest friends from the world over who have so tremendously swept me off my feet till today with their everlasting remembrance, love and respect for my Kohinoor, Dilip Kumar Sahib.”

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After this, Saira Banu recalled how Dilip Kumar used to at all times put on white on this Jodhpuri collar sort of “Bush” shirt. Alongside an image of the veteran celebrity, Saira Banu wrote, “Sahib preferably always wore white in this Jodhpuri collar kind of “Bush” shirts… I requested and got around him to please wear a few colour shades In his shirts… here he is laughing at me saying look! I am wearing a colour… a yellow that you like Saira… but on condition that you promise to wear fluffy Organdy sarees that make you seem more substantial! Not salwar kameez that makes me want to send you to school again!”

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Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar bought married in October 1966. The two actors have co-starred in a bunch of movies like Sagina, Bairaag, Gopi and Duniya. Dilip Kumar had a wonderful profession spanning over six many years. He was final seen within the 1998 movie Qila.