Naseem Banu Was Indian Cinema’s First Female Superstar: Saira Banu, the most famous actress of the 60s, celebrated her 79th birthday recently. In the 60s-70s, she ruled millions of hearts with her innocent beauty. Saira inherited acting, as her mother was also a brilliant actress. But do you know that he took a break from acting at the peak of his career because of his daughter. Saira Banu’s mother Naseem Banu was a famous actress of the 40s and is said to be the first female superstar of Hindi cinema. She was called the beauty queen of her time and later her daughter also became very famous for her beauty. When Saira was 3 years old, her father migrated to Pakistan during Partition. Saira Banu had two dreams since her childhood. The first dream was to be called a beauty queen or a superstar like her mother and the second dream was to marry the great actor Dilip Kumar. Fortunately, both their dreams came true but their mother had to sacrifice her career for it. Know the unheard things about Naseem Bano..
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Significantly, Saira’s mother Naseem Banu sacrificed her career to make Saira an actress, when she was one of the most popular actresses of her time. His first film was Khoon Ka Khoon and Chadian Di Doli was his last film. He worked in films from the 1930s to the 1950s. She was the actress who took the highest salary of Rs 3500 during her time.
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A few months later, Naseem Bano returned to India with her children and started working in films. Saira Banu always dreamed of becoming an actress but her mother was against it. She wanted Saira to become a lawyer or a doctor. As Saira Banu was good at studies, her mother sent her to London to study. Then Saira used to come to India only during holidays.
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Once a 12-year-old Saira Banu was watching the film ‘Aan’ directed by Mehboob Khan and Dilip Kumar as the hero of the film at home with her mother. Saira liked Dilip Kumar’s strong role in the film so much that she immediately insisted to her mother that she would marry Dilip Kumar. Naseem Bano laughed at her daughter’s demand, but no one thought that she would one day marry Dilip Kumar.
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Whenever Saira came home for holidays, producers would come to her house with film offers, but Naseem Banu always turned down their requests. At the age of 16, when Saira came to India during her holidays, she got an offer for the film Junglee opposite Shammi Kapoor. Even then, Naseem Banu did not want Saira to appear in films, but when Saira insisted, she agreed.
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She later married producer Mian-ul-Haq and gave birth to a daughter on 23 August 1944. Although Naseem’s father Mian-ul-Haq was an architect, after marriage he started his own production company and started making films. Saira was just 3 years old when her father chose Pakistan after the partition of India-Pakistan in 1947. Naseem Bano refused to go to Pakistan with Mian and moved to England with her children.
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She shot half of the film during her first vacation and then returned to London and completed the rest of the film during her second vacation. Saira’s mother Naseem Banu knew that if she continued to appear in films, people would continue to compare her to Saira, so she stopped working in Hindi films from 1957. He took a break from acting when his career was at its peak.