Blast from the past: Dilip Kumar with his second wife Asma

Blast from the past: Dilip Kumar with his second wife Asma
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A lot of you have been posting some really cool vintage stuff on Pinkvilla. This inspired me to make a post on the yester year tragedy king Dilip Kumar.

Dilip Kumar, like we all know, at 44 married a very young Saira Banu. She was barely 22 then. Dilip saab was previously linked to many a few co-stars(Madhubala, Vaijayanti Mala, Kamini Kaushal). This was in 1966.

But in 1980, Dilip Kumar married a Hyderabadi girl named Asma(Dilip being a muslim, this was completely legal).However,his second marriage brokeup as he realized that Asma was cheating him by disclosing all his secrets to the press along with her former husband.

Finally Dilip came back to Saira and they lived happily.

Another version of the story: When Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu looked like they had the perfect marriage, out came his marriage with Asma. When Saira threw a fit and asked for a quick divorce, Dilip Kumar retracted to Saira and divorced Asma. Asma remained the loser all the way, as she had left her husband and children to be with her beloved. She tried suicide and later went back to her former husband.

I am pretty sure you folks were not aware of this second wife of Dilip Kumar a.k.a Yusuf Khan. Here is a photo of Dilip with Asma




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Anonymous's picture

That's so disgusting! I hate the idea of someone doing multiple marriages or keeping more than one wife. I don't know why Islam and Mormon religions allow that....yuck! So archaic.

Anonymous's picture

If Asma suicide - who is responsible, maybe dilip saheb have children with asma - dilip saheb should have think before marriage with asma what will happen in future, he should have get permission with saira.

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Anonymous's picture

people have pretty free time to comment.............and that also like yukk and disgusting.............
whats wrong if he married to Asma....................
how many husbands in this world are very honest to their wives...........
how many husbands are having illegal affair with another woman.............
so i don't understand why we are calling his decision to marry Asma is wrong............

and above all All actors are human being.................neither god nor angel...............
so they can be perfect.............
they act on script.............it doesn't mean they real life will be the same as movie...............

Before we call some body bad, or character less we have to look around .............

why would saira should break her marriage ...........just because her husband get married to another.............she is the first one to marry him..............and she had all right on him.....................
Only stupid woman break their marriage for such kind of thing......................
in my point of view..............Saira is a wise woman.............and she did think with her brain not with her heart..........

past is always past .....................why to live with that...........forgive the mistakes and keep moving with life.................

Anonymous's picture

actually dilip vyjayanthimala is a perfect couple i consider...both was in love post madhumati!! some critic spotted dilip vyjayanthi's on set romance during the making of gunga jumna...produced by dilip kumar himself!! i think they both can make a god pair cause...they both are one of the best actors during their time....both are box office king and queen respectively!! i wonder how deeply would the both in love that they did not talk 2 each other after the break up while dilip kumar even asked the director of ram aur shyam 2 replace vyjayanthimala with other actress! vyjayanthimala become more moody after the break up and was not able to cooperate with few directors such as vijay anand (goldie)! just wonder if both got married!! vyjayanthi still admire dilip kumar...even their chemistry in apsara awards is undeniable!! dilip-vyjayanthimala affair is part of the history now!! though the affair is less famous than raj kapoor-vyjayanthi or dilip-madhubala affair, but still it was one of the memorable yet disappointing affair that we wants to ended up in other way...:((

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Fri, 2012-05-11 03:15 — Anonymous
Anyway, Bollywood chooses to believe Dilip and Saira have the perfect marriage. They didn't and they don't know. He's grown to love her and he totally depends on her in his old age but was he ever IN LOVE with Saira? I don't think so. To this day, he has a giant picture of Madhubala in MEA hanging over the reception in his house. What does that tell you?

DK-Saira marriage is a sham. People romanticize it for the sake of it. They were a mismatch from the get go, the generation apart huge age difference should have stopped DK from marrying her. Sounds similar to Rajesh Khanna-Dimple doomed marriage. The younger ambitious actress awestruck by his status/position, blinded by his legendary fame wants a piece of it falls for his flattering attention and it wears off sooner than later. He wanted to be a father so he married a much younger actress. She must be fun company to have around initially with her youthful nakhras/jhatkas, it is hollow. He should have married Waheeda Rehman they belonged to the same era/genre, share mindsets/maturity levels, grown old together and aged gracefully too. DK is unlucky he never found a partner in the true sense. Madhubala died young she would have widowed him. DK-Saira marriage is heavily lopsided, more a father-daughter kinda bond where she became a crutch that he depends on and is handicapped without her around. The crush that becomes the crutch. That is not LOVE at all. Very unfortunate indeed. How does a man live happily with a woman who goes to the Press to divulge dirt on him or his family or threatens him? Saira could have found a compatible husband not a father to take care of. Both are stuck. DK is indeed a very good actor to keep the happy image alive. Maybe if he had kids with Asma or adopted an orphan he would be happier. I don't think kids make a happy marriage, the right partners do. I feel sorry for both. I wish they spend the rest of their years together in happiness.

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Fri, 2012-05-11 03:15 — Anonymous
Anyway, Bollywood chooses to believe Dilip and Saira have the perfect marriage. They didn't and they don't know. He's grown to love her and he totally depends on her in his old age but was he ever IN LOVE with Saira? I don't think so. To this day, he has a giant picture of Madhubala in MEA hanging over the reception in his house. What does that tell you?

DK-Saira marriage is a sham. People romanticize it for the sake of it. They were a mismatch from the get go, the generation apart huge age difference should have stopped DK from marrying her. Sounds similar to Rajesh Khanna-Dimple doomed marriage. The younger ambitious actress awestruck by his status/position, blinded by his legendary fame wants a piece of it falls for his flattering attention and it wears off sooner than later. He wanted to be a father so he married a much younger actress. She must be fun company to have around initially with her youthful nakhras/jhatkas, it is hollow. He should have married Waheeda Rehman they belonged to the same era/genre, share mindsets/maturity levels, grown old together and aged gracefully too. DK is unlucky he never found a partner in the true sense. Madhubala died young she would have widowed him. DK-Saira marriage is heavily lopsided, more a father-daughter kinda bond where she became a crutch that he depends on and is handicapped without her around. The crush that becomes the crutch. That is not LOVE at all. Very unfortunate indeed. How does a man live happily with a woman who goes to the Press to divulge dirt on him or his family or threatens him? Saira could have found a compatible husband not a father to take care of. Both are stuck. DK is indeed a very good actor to keep the happy image alive. Maybe if he had kids with Asma or adopted an orphan he would be happier. I don't think kids make a happy marriage, the right partners do. I feel sorry for both. I wish they spend the rest of their years together in happiness.

Anonymous's picture

OMG really didnt know about DK second marriage.I always thought that dilip saira are love birds.Feel bad for saira bano,what she gone through when dilip had another woman in his life And feel sorry for asma too coz She was targeted and used for children by Dilip.(May be asma wanted to be used by dilip,dDilip kumar was big star at that time with lots of money).Her EX husband was nice who married her inpite knowing asma married or lived with dilip.

Anonymous's picture

OH I THINK THAT SAIRA(WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG ) LOOK LIKE KAREENA KAPOOR !!

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Fri, 2012-05-11 07:58 — Anonymous

Shame on you calling Asma a loser, you had no idea what she went through yet you called her a loser as if she was a street dog. Gosh I'm disgusted
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LOL!!!! She isn't calling her a 'loser' in a colloquial insulting way but in a 'loser'- lost every thing kind of a way.

Anonymous's picture

oh yuck! Dilip Kumar or should I say Yusuf, that's disgusting :(

Anonymous's picture

So if it was Saira's fault that they couldn't have a baby.....Why didn't Dilip Kumar sire one with Asma? It more than proves that it was his fault. She did have children with her first husband. I am sure they had enough time to make a baby. Thank goodness I don't live in a medieval mind set where if a man can't have children it's his right to remarry. What if it's the man's fault.....does the woman have the right to remarry?????

Anonymous's picture

Shameless men!! they remember Islam when they want to marry more women.
they forget about Islam when they are singing and dancing around trees for money, when they are drinking alcohol...

Anonymous's picture

Shame on you calling Asma a loser, you had no idea what she went through yet you called her a loser as if she was a street dog. Gosh I'm disgusted

Anonymous's picture

No u r wrong. we knew about his marriage to asma

Anonymous's picture

She was never a single parent. She divorced and then remarried her first husband.

fari_cutie's picture

he married asma f0r children 0kay nd miss saira ban0 acted like a villan and br0ke their marriage he needed children it was his ryt in islam

Anonymous's picture

I don't think Jeetendra left his wife, he actually decently proposed marriage to Hema but she refused. the rest is history.

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moimeme

bhang khai kya tunae?"Jeetendra left his wife to be with Hema Malini"????

Anonymous's picture

all stars have secrets..it depends on how clever you covered your own

Anonymous's picture

dilip kumar wanted badly children and because saira banu could not get pregnant, he married someone else but things didn't go as planed and he got back to his first wife saira banu...

Anonymous's picture

from what I got from Mr. Dili8p Kumar's biography his marriage to Saira Bano was never a happy one because of the age difference and also because he was a conservative Pathan at heart while Saira was very Western and liberalised plus there were no children from their union. From day one Saira was at odds with his family (who in turn were very close) and made him move away from them to her mom's house. When Asma came into his life she took great pains to get the estranged family together which is why they sided with Asma and not Saira. Even though Dilip loved Asma for her beauty and love for traditional poetry and the Urdu language (something Saira could not appreciate) she was the one who divulged details of their secret marriage to teh press and throughout it all was in touch with her ex husband. Interestingly after the divorce Asma remarried her first husband. At the time of the biography's publication in the mid-late 90s the Khan family (dilip's siblings) were still estranged between the two camps; those who had supported Asma and those who had sided with Saira.

Anonymous's picture

The story goes that Dilip Kumar had lots of affairs with various actresses like Madhubala & Waheeda Rehman .
Finally he married the much younger Saira Banu. He was desperate to have a son & heir,but Saira had a medical condition making that impossible. Then came the married Asma who was also a mother & a huge fan of Dilip Kumar.He thought she will give him a child & married (?) her. A broken hearted Saira did not accept it & threatened to commit suicide. Finally Dilip returned to Saira & Asma returned to her own husband & kids.

Anonymous's picture

Dilip dated Kamini Kausahl for 4 years before she was forced to marry her brother in law (her late sister's husband). Her brother threatened Dilip with a firearm when he wouldn't stop seeing her and that was that. He then fell in love with Madhubala and they were together for almost 8 years. We all know how that ended. Dilip stood up in court and testified that he loved her and will always love her to his dying day. But he moved on to Vyjayanthimala and later Waheeda Rehman. Saira came much much later.

Anonymous's picture

The REAL story is that Dilip's family have never liked Saira. They allege she's isolated them for him and moved her family in instead. Dilip left Saira and married this Asma lady, and Saira then went public with a cover story in a bollywood magazine (just google it) and threatened SUICIDE if Dilip didn't leave Asma. Saira also revealed that Dilip had been seeing Waheeda Rehma before he dumped her and married Saira. She was FURIOUS. At the same time, Diliip's family were overjoyed at the enstragement and actually went to Madhubala's family who didn't live far at the time and told them Dilip had left Saira. Madhubala's sisters were very upset that they were still being hurt by Dilip's family all those years later.

Anyway, Bollywood chooses to believe Dilip and Saira have the perfect marriage. They didn't and they don't know. He's grown to love her and he totally depends on her in his old age but was he ever IN LOVE with Saira? I don't think so. To this day, he has a giant picture of Madhubala in MEA hanging over the reception in his house. What does that tell you?

moimeme's picture

he looks really bad here...this kind of thing is comment..now with the huge media following, stars can't do anything like that..Jeetendra left his wife to be with Hema Malini..Mithun did the same with Sridevi..so it was quite common..

Anonymous's picture

how Saira bano can take dilip kumar back............. yukkk... once its gone ,its gone.

only people with no self respect will let their husband come back .

Anonymous's picture

really? I felt sorry for Asma when I heard she was a single parent who he married and dumped in a blink of an eye. Sounded very sad. The press made it seem like Saira Banu demanded he divorce her with suicide threats and DK caved in.
Damn was she really cheating on Dilip Kumar with her ex husband and also the press? Leaking info to the press is the worst sin. Had no idea. Tragic and shocking. Never knew this. So very shameful. She shouldn't have married him in the first place. He does look very unhappy since a long time. He must be very hurt. Wish him happiness. I think I committed a sin placing blame on DK. Damn the goddamn press.

Anonymous's picture

really? I felt sorry for Asma when I heard she was a single parent who he married and dumped in a blink of an eye. Sounded very sad. The press made it seem like Saira Banu demanded he divorce her with suicide threats and DK caved in.
Damn was she really cheating on Dilip Kumar with her ex husband and also the press? Leaking info to the press is the worst sin. Had no idea. Tragic and shocking. Never knew this. So very shameful. She shouldn't have married him in the first place. He does look very unhappy since a long time. He must be very hurt. Wish him happiness. I think I committed a sin placing blame on DK. Damn the goddamn press.

Anonymous's picture

Always thought he was only married to Saira Bano. Never knew of this Asma woman until reading this post. Where is she now?

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