Saira Banu pays tribute to late actor Dilip Kumar on World Mental Health Day; see post

On World Mental Health Day, veteran actress Saira Banu took to Instagram to share a heartfelt tribute to her late husband, legendary actor Dilip Kumar. In her post, she highlighted Dilip Kumar's deep commitment to social causes, particularly his early involvement in supporting the National Association of the Blind and his advocacy for mental health care.

 

Saira Banu pays tribute to late actor Dilip Kumar on World Mental Health Day; see post

 

She took to Instagram and wrote, “Long before corporate social responsibility took shape in the corporate world, Dilip Sahib instinctively decided to champion social causes. He felt an actor owed a gesture of gratitude to the people who idolized him and placed him on a pedestal as a star. He chose to take up the cause of raising funds for the National Association of the Blind @mumbainab which was engaged in providing the necessary support to the blind in acquiring skills to manage their lives and make a living.”

 

She further added, “As part of the preparation for enacting the character of a blind youth searching for his missing sweetheart in Deedar, Nitin Bose, the director, advised him to spend time observing and chatting with a blind man who sat outside a local railway station every day. Sahib and Dadamoni (Ashok Kumar) traveled to the station, found the man, and observed him. The man's grit and his reconciliation with fate thrust on him deeply impacted Sahib.”

 

Saira Banu also wrote, “I am filled with awe when I think of the farsightedness of his concern. In our quieter days, when we got the time to sit in the garden and enjoy brunch, he shared his thoughts on various issues of social concern; one of them was the need to focus on mental health care. He explained to me that it takes tremendous mental strength to bear the pain caused by mental bruises and the experience of starvation, sickness, and the loss of dear ones, and property, savings, etc.”

 

On World Mental Health Day, Saira Banu expressed her hope that governments and charitable institutions would prioritize mental health care as part of their social objectives. She wrote, “He foresaw the resort to suicide by jobless people who had no one to pacify them. He talked to his friends in the medical profession about setting up counseling centers and hospitals to treat mental disorders. Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay, I can only pray that those who can do what they can to motivate action from governments and charitable institutions to make mental health as important as general health care in their social objectives because Mental health is a 'Universal Human Right', let us not deny it with our apathy. #WorldMentalHealthDay #SairaBanu #DilipSahib #Bollywood.”

 

 

For the unversed, Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar tied the knot on October 11, 1966, and the couple were together for over five decades. Dilip Kumar passed away on July 7, 2021 due to old age ailments and prolonged illness.

 

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