Saira Banu pens heartfelt note on “Great icons” Dilip Kumar and Sunil Dutt’s friendship; says, “Did not isolate themselves in their own luxurious lives”

Veteran actress Saira Banu took to her social media handle on Monday and shared a throwback photo featuring her husband and late actor Dilip Kumar along with Sunil Dutt. In the caption, she wrote about the friendship between the two actors.

“I am joyous as I share stories and moments that Sahib shared and lived with people that he called friends. Sahib was known to be a lovable and caring person but only a few people knew that he was a great friend too…one of them was Sunil Dutt,” she wrote.

Banu went on to say that Dilip Kumar and Dutt were not only neighbours but also dearest of friends. She said that they were both great icons who did not isolate themselves in their own luxurious lives but always came to aid the film fraternity, whether it was a matter of the industry at large or some crisis.

“When there was big trouble and heartache Dilip Sahib and Dutt Sahab would burn the midnight lamp together and would pow-wow into finding solutions, be it 3 in the morning. or 4, whether it meant travelling to and fro to Delhi or helping victims of the civil riots in Mumbai,” she wrote.

Banu also recalled an incident when Dutt met with an unfortunate air crash on his flight back from a function in Shirpur, Maharashtra. She said that even though Dutt was injured, he did not stop himself from hobbling across with a walking stick to Dilip Kumar’s house to wish him Eid Mubarak. “This was the greatness and camaraderie of Dutt Sahab,” she wrote.

Banu concluded her post by saying that the friendship between Dilip Kumar and Sunil Dutt goes back to a radio interview that Dutt did with Dilip Kumar and Mehboob Khan’s Mother India, wherein Dilip Kumar refused to be cast as Nargi’ son in the same film. After that, Sunil Dutt was cast in the same role.

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Fans have been pouring in their comments, remembering the friendship between the two actors.

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