I’m madly in love with Dilip Saab: Saira Banu

The first time she saw Dilip Kumar he was casually attired in his hallmark white trousers and crisp long-sleeved white shirt. With his entry everything changed in the room. He was regal in his bearing and princely in his appearance. He was completely unaware of the radiance and natural magnetism he possessed, being innately unassuming and unaffected by his stardom and his growing importance as an actor. “I was with my mother who graciously acknowledged his greetings and introduced me. When he smiled at me and remarked that I was a pretty girl I could feel my whole being taking wings and flying rapturously. I knew somewhere deep within me that I was going to be his wife. I and no one else , my instincts whispered, was going to be this divinely blessed man’s wife. The dream took roots from then onwards,” she recalls.