Beehive hairdos, wing-tip eye liner, one inch long artificial eyelashes, Western costume jewelry, dressed in mod or cabaret outfits, they were all part of the Saira Banu reprotroir. Her most famous and enduring roles were the blond NRI in "PURAB AUR PACHHIM" and the would be mermaid in "PADOSAN" . She was a glamor girl with an incredible hourglass figure, a blood pressure raising siren. The aura of 'arm-candy' persists around Saira and she will be remembered, studied, and reveled as such in the minds of popular culture and scholars.
By the time Saira was 21 her career had already peaked. When she was 22 She married Dilip Kumar who was 22 years her senior. They made a few film together that never really took off. Saira's mother was one of the most famous and beautiful actress of 1940s Bollywood Naseem Banu. Retired from the film world Saira Banu is now a socialite, having the lineage of her mother's past glory and marriage to one of Bollywood's most celebrated actors she has settled into the role of Bollywood royalty.
