Saira Banu Reminisces About Her Wedding to Dilip Kumar On Their Anniversary
Nearly six decades after their 1966 wedding, Saira Banu fondly recalls the chaos of her and Dilip Kumar’s wedding day.
In October of 1966, Bollywood witnessed one of the most loved unions when veteran actors Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar tied the knot. Nearly six decades later, on October 11, 2025, Saira Banu took to Instagram to revisit her wedding day with the legendary Dilip Kumar. Sharing a series of black-and-white pictures from their big day, she called the evening “unreal and dreamlike,” describing how the song ‘Do Sitaron Ka Zameen Par Hai Milan Aaj Ki Raat’ floated through the air “like a blessing that wouldn’t fade.”
Saira revealed, through the post, that nothing about their wedding was extravagant, and yet it was a special moment. She shared that there were no printed invitations; her bridal joda was stitched by a local tailor, and their Nikaah, which was originally planned for November, had taken place earlier after a phone call from Dilip Kumar in Calcutta. “He said, ‘Aap ek Maulvi ko bulaiye aur Nikaah karwa dijiye!’ And just like that, the most important day of my life unfolded before I could even blink,” she wrote in her post.
She also recalled the chaos that had followed. She reminisced about how Dilip’s baraat had arrived, his sehra brushing the umbrella and how news of his wedding was quick to spread as hundreds of fans had flooded her home. She revealed that it had taken her two hours to make her way downstairs for the ceremony, and because of the commotion, the family had even run out of food. She remembered that the guests had begun pocketing tiny souvenirs, “a fork here, a spoon there,” as keepsakes from the fairytale-like evening.
“Nothing was perfect, and yet it was filled with the kind of joy that words can never truly capture,” she said, calling it a night that still glows softly in her heart.
Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar were married for 55 years until his passing in July 2021 at the age of 98. Decades later, her memories of that simple, love-filled night remain as vivid as ever — a poignant reminder that some of life's most beautiful moments need no grandeur, only genuine emotion.