His co-star in five acclaimed films, Waheeda Rehman remembers the legendary Dilip Kumar with fond memories. Speaking to ETimes she reveals, “It is a very sad news but it was bound to happen. He had been suffering for so long. I have done five films with him and it was a fantastic experience, he was not only a good actor but a huge star. He was a very intense actor especially in tragic scenes, he used to be very good even without uttering a word. He could express his pain so well and yet, he was good in comedy, too. It was a great experience working with him the industry and the entire country will miss him. But that's life, what to do.”
Even though she’s shaken up by his passing, Waheeda recalls a fond memory with Dilip Kumar from the sets of ‘Ram Aur Shyam’. She says, “I remember one funny scene from ‘Ram Aur Shyam’ and in that scene, he had to switch over from being Ram to Shyam. In that scene, he had to eat many boiled eggs and there were retakes and the entire unit used to laugh and he would say, here I am getting tortured and you guys are laughing at me. I was sitting in front of him in the scene and he told me, ‘Please hasna mat anda gale mein phas jayega. Aur main mar jaunga (Pease don’t laugh, the egg might get stuck in my throat and I might die). Please don't do that. So I replied it was your bright idea to do this thing.”
Waheeda offers her prayers and respect to Dilip Kumar’s wife Saira Banu and says, “My heartfelt condolences to Saira. May his soul rest in peace, may God give her strength to go through this.”
Waheeda Rehman and Dilip Kumar have worked in films like Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966), Ram Aur Shyam (1967) and Aadmi (1968) and more.
