HOW A PRETTY LITTLE GIRL'S DREAM CAME TRUE !

Saira Banu was the only daughter of the beautiful star of the forties and fifties, Naseem Banu.

Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan)was a star who was slowly but surely growing into a living legend.

He used to visit Naseem Banu who was a colleague and it was during these meetings that the little Saira saw him and made up her still growing mind that she would marry him and no other man.

Saira was sent abroad for her studies together with her brother,Sultan.It was in London that she saw her first Dilip Kumar film, "Aan"and her love for her dream hero grew stronger.

Saira returned to India and got her first break as a leading lady in "Junglee " when she was still in her teens and became a star with her first film.

She was an actress in great demand and was working with all the leading male stars. Rajendra Kumar was one of them.

The two worked in films like "Aayee Milan Ki Bela", "Jhuk Gaya Aasmaan" and "Aman"and there were stories about their falling in love even though Rajendra Kumar was a married man with three children.

Naseem Banu was very disturbed about the stories and sought the help of her friend,Yusuf.

He came to the house of Naseem and saw the young Saira who was overwhelmed to see her dream hero and the meeting was over and her dream hero left.

Dilip Kumar was playing a double role in "Ram Aur Shyam ". Waheeda Rehman was one of the heroines.

The makers who were from the South wanted to cast Saira as the second heroine, but Dilip Kumar found her too young to be his heroine and the role went to the upcoming star Mumtaz.

Saira felt hurt and decided to take some kind of sweet revenge on her dream hero. She didn't have to wait long.

Naseem and her friend Yusuf were still planning how to "save" Saira from her hero of three films.

Dilip Kumar didn't let either Naseem or Saira know that he had fallen in love with Saira during that meeting with Naseem in her house.

Dilip Kumar who was considered to be the most eligible bachelor in the country with hundreds of girls wanting to marry him ,decided to marry Saira and the two got married in what was called the marriage of the century.

Dilip Kumar, the legend was forty four years old and the "beauty queen "Saira was only twenty two.

The marriage created a sensation all over and the couple's photograph appeared on the front pages of all the leading dailies the next day . The dream that little girl had seen had finally come true and how !

YEH JO MOHABBAT HAI , KHUDAH KI AJEEB DEN HAI. MOHABBAT USSE KAHETE HAI JO ZINDAA REHETI HAI, BAS ZINDAA REHETI HAI TAQAYAAMAT