Saira Banu Fondly Recalls Dilip Kumar's "Athletic Side": "Fate Had Fashioned A Very Different Destiny"

"Wow what super memories, thanks for sharing Saira aunty, " Priya Dutt commented

Veteran actress Saira Banu might be new to Instagram but her posts are filled with nostalgia and are a recollection of her time spent with the late actor and her husband Dilip Kumar. Ever since her debut on the photo-sharing app, the actress has been doling out some treasured pictures of herself and her late husband and honestly, we are not complaining. On Tuesday also, the actress did nothing different. Sharing a monochrome image of a young Dilip Kumar, playing cricket, Saira Banu revealed that the Devdas actor once wanted to become a cricketer.

In an elaborate caption, Saira Banu talked about Dilip Kumar's tryst with cricket in his younger days. She wrote, "I always love to see this photograph as I know of his yearning as a youngster to become the country's best sportsman! However, The Almighty and Fate had fashioned a very different destiny for Mohammed Yousuf Khan… at that time, every evening after college he always went to the grounds behind the Metro Cinema to play cricket and football with passion. With other like-minded sports enthusiasts... Sahibji sweetly narrated to me how with great excitement he purchased his first cricket bat and sports shoes from a shop near Metro Cinema...!"

She continued, "The athletic side of Dilip Sahib was so strong while in school and college that he emerged a winner and victorious also in every 200 meters race."