A recent reunion between veteran actors Saira Banu and Hema Malini has brought back old memories, after the former shared a heartfelt note looking back at their decades-long bond. Posting a picture from the visit on her Instagram, Saira Banu spoke about how seeing Hema Malini again instantly reminded her of their first meeting many years ago.
She wrote, “It does not feel so long ago that Hema had come to see me at my home, accompanied by her cousin Prabha... and yet, when I heard that she's coming again... my heart was happy. When she entered, she looked just as graceful, and in that instant, I was taken back to the very first time I met her in 1966, on the sets of Deewana with Raj Kapoor. Even then, I remember, I was quite simply mesmerised by her beauty. There is no other word that feels as true.”
She also recalled their time during an outdoor shoot near the Krishna Raj Sagar Dam, where staying in adjacent rooms meant they spent hours chatting about everyday things, often with their mothers joining in. “Our rooms were next to each other, which meant our days, quite naturally, became shared. We would sit for hours in the verandah, speaking of everything that came to mind… Our mothers were with us too, and would often join, adding something wiser, something steadier, to our easy, unguarded conversations.”
What stood out in her message was how naturally their friendship has continued over the years. “Some friendships do not ask to be maintained; they simply endure. With her, there is no effort, no need to explain or revisit. There is only understanding, a familiarity that time, in all its passing, has not diminished.”
Saira Banu also remembered Dharmendra and spoke about his warm personality and the respect he always had for her husband, Dilip Kumar. “And somewhere in those thoughts, I found myself thinking of Dharmendra ji, of his warmth, of the sincerity with which he held his affections. The love and regard he had for Dilip sahib was never something he needed to declare; it was understood in the way he spoke of him, with a respect that came from somewhere very deep.”
She concluded by writing, “Some bonds, I feel, are like that. They do not announce themselves. They are simply lived, over years, in ways both seen and unseen. And in moments like these, one realises not everything that is precious belongs to the past. Some of it remains with us still.”
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