'No question of a big celebration'

Updated On: 21 December, 2020 06:42 PM IST | Mumbai | C Y Gopinath

After Dilip Kumar loses two brothers to COVID-19 earlier this year, Saira Banu says no big plans for thespians 98th birthday tomorrow

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Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar. Pic/Twitter

Since the lockdown was announced in March, Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu have been staying in isolation in their Bandra bungalow, with Banu occasionally sharing glimpses of the thespian on social media. She pragmatically says that the lockdown has hardly altered their lives - it is merely another phase in their 54-year-long marriage that has seen the two happy in their own little world, cut off from the outside noise. "It`s nothing new to me because even before the pandemic, I loved being at home. I would not step out much. I am a bit of a recluse, so is Dilip sahab. He used to love travelling earlier, but, he has had to cut it down with age," says Banu.

Ehsan Khan (left) passed away in September, days after youngest brother Aslam’s demise in August