Saira Banu pays heartfelt tribute to Pran: “Pran and I were friends in the real sense of the term” : Bollywood News

As the world remembers the legendary actor Pran on his birth anniversary, veteran actress Saira Banu took to social media to share a heartfelt tribute, shedding light on the beautiful friendship between Pran Sahab and the iconic Dilip Sahib.

Saira Banu pays heartfelt tribute to Pran: “Pran and I were friends in the real sense of the term”

In a heartfelt post, Saira Banu reminisced about the remarkable friendship shared between Pran and Dilip Kumar. She put up a warm wish saying, “Happy Birthday Pran Sahab! Pran Sahab and Sahib remained close until the very end.”

She further added “Dilip Sahib always spoke very highly of Pran Sahab and to which he stated that "RAM AUR SHYAM WAS COMPLETED AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. Its work was a jolly experience for all of us. I was working with my friend Pran in Ram Aur Shyam and Aadmi at the same time. Pran and I were friends in the real sense of the term. We met at the workplace and we met informally as often as we could either at his house or mine since we lived in the same locality: Bandra”.

“At work, we were invariably pitted against each other - our characters were always caught in a conflict over something or the other. It used to be very amusing for onlookers to watch the change that would come over him when he faced the camera with me in the frame after all the friendliness and affection they had seen a while ago between us”.

Another excerpt of her caption read, "We had enjoyed being together during the shooting of Bimal Roy's Madhumati in the forest location where almost everybody else spoke in Bengali while we conversed heartily in Punjabi. He loved the evenings we spent sitting around a bonfire reciting exquisite poetry. We had some wonderful times in Madras when we were shooting for Ram Aur Shyam and Aadmi. We had just completed Dil Diya Dard Liya and the joke on the sets in Madras was "Pran aap ka peecha hi nahin chodta". It was fine with me and fine with him because we liked each other's company and respected each other as artists."