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Dilip Kumar shared successful his memoir that helium and Saira Bano mislaid a babe lad during eighth period of pregnancy. (Photo: Express Archives)
Dilip Kumar and Saira Bano got joined successful 1966, erstwhile Dilip was 44 and Saira was conscionable 22. Dilip was known arsenic the ‘most eligible bachelor’ astatine the time, and soon aft their wedding, magazines and tabloids could not assistance but speculate astir children. When Dilip joined Asma Rehman successful 1982 for a abbreviated while, rumours suggested that helium had done truthful due to the fact that “Saira could not carnivore a child,” but arsenic per the actor, this was not the case. Dilip said that Saira was large with their child, but couldn’t transportation the gestation to term.
In his memoir, Dilip Kumar The Substance And The Shadow: An Autobiography, Dilip shared that erstwhile helium got joined to Asma Rehman, it was “wrongly represented that Saira could not carnivore a child.” He past proceeded to stock that helium and Saira were expecting a babe successful 1972. “The information is that Saira had borne a child, a lad (as we came to cognize later), successful 1972. We mislaid the babe successful the eighth period of gestation erstwhile Saira developed precocious humor unit and the obstetricians attending connected her could not execute the country successful clip to prevention the full-grown foetus, which had been strangulated by the umbilical cord. We took the nonaccomplishment successful our stride arsenic the volition of God,” helium wrote.
Dilip shared that helium was often asked if helium was unhappy astir not having children. He said that it “would person been large if we had our ain kids. But it is not a shortcoming for us.” He said that helium had galore nephews and nieces and helium saw them each arsenic his ain children. “They were capable to marque america consciousness similar parents. As infants they were brought to maine and it was mandatory for the babies to slumber soundly connected my ample thorax arsenic if they were connected a foam mattress. As they grew up, they came location to play absorbing games with ‘Mamu’ arsenic each of them addressed me,” helium said.
Dilip said that Saira ever “went each out” during household gatherings and said that it was “wonderful to emotion and beryllium loved by them and beryllium determination solidly erstwhile they request america and vice versa.” He missed his nephews and nieces arsenic they were each grown up and engaged with their ain lives, and mentioned that if helium had his ain children, they too, perhaps, would beryllium conscionable arsenic busy. “Perhaps if we had our ain sons oregon daughters, they excessively would person gone to places acold distant to prosecute their dreams and we would person got to spot them erstwhile oregon doubly a year,” helium said.
Dilip and Saira stayed joined until his decease successful 2021.
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