“Don’t you guys ship love notes or messages over the cellphone anymore?” asks Saira Banu firstly of the dialog. On Valentine’s Day as we speak, the actress talks about the great thing about old-world romance and shares a number of the love notes that she exchanged along with her husband, legendary actor Dilip Kumar.
“Duniya kaafi badal gayi hai.There was a sure restraint again in our time, however there was a magnificence to it,” she observes. She provides, “Telegrams milna could be an enormous deal. Mobiles didn’t exist and telephones would barely work when you had been taking pictures open air. For nearly 20 days, you needed to survive with out listening to out of your family members.”
Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu
In her rising up days, Saira Banu’s grandmom would accompany her to highschool in London. She recollects, “You may write to somebody or courtroom them provided that you had been formally engaged or dedicated. I do know issues have modified now, however I’m old-school that manner. I appreciated that tradition.”
The language of affection has modified over time. Within the age of app-inspired romance, textual content messages and emojis have taken over hand-written notes, poetry and love letters. The veteran actress nonetheless holds the hand-written notes she exchanged along with her husband near her coronary heart. She says, “Aaj kal ke mashooq kaise apni dil ki baaten bayan kar lete hai. We used to have poetry and couplets. I used to be nicely acquainted with English, French and Latin as I studied in London, however I learnt Urdu and Persian as a result of my husband was well-versed in them. He would write to me in English and Urdu. After I would wrestle to learn the Urdu phrases, he would tease me.”
Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu
Talking of affection notes, she remembers, “Ours was an important love story. We’d change notes by the air hostesses when he could be obliged to go and sit with another person for a while. I’d write to him, ‘Jaan, don’t you suppose I’ve been alone for too lengthy? Will you come again to me?’ I missed him and wished him again beside me. He would write again, ‘I’ll be again in a jiffy’, which might be an hour or extra. I would go away notes below his folded shirts in his bag when he travelled for work in order that he may get up to them every day.”
She concluded, “Dilip sahib would at all times ask, ‘Aap kaha ho’, if I wasn’t seated subsequent to him, and I’d say, ‘Foremost aapke ird gird hello hoon’. He cherished me with all his coronary heart, however I’d tease him by saying, ‘It’s okay when you don’t love me. I really like you adequate for the each of us’.”
