IANS LIVE-ON 100 YEARS OF DEV ANAND, SAIRA BANU REVEALS WHY SHE DECLINED ‘GUIDE’
April 30, 2025
Fixtures
Result29 April 2025
Match 48
DC
DC
190/9 (20 ov)
KKR
KKR
204/9 (20 ov)
KKR won by 14 runs
Result28 April 2025
Match 47
RR
RR
212/2 (15.5 ov)
GT
GT
209/4 (20 ov)
RR won by 8 wickets
Result27 April 2025
Match 46
DC
DC
162/8 (20 ov)
RCB
RCB
165/4 (18.3 ov)
RCB won by 6 wickets
Result27 April 2025
Match 45
MI
MI
215/7 (20 ov)
LSG
LSG
161/10 (20 ov)
MI won by 54 runs
Result26 April 2025
Match 44
KKR
KKR
7/0 (1 ov)
PBKS
PBKS
201/4 (20 ov)
No result
Result25 April 2025
Match 43
CSK
CSK
154/10 (19.5 ov)
SRH
SRH
155/5 (18.4 ov)
SRH won by 5 wickets
Result24 April 2025
Match 42
RCB
RCB
205/5 (20 ov)
RR
RR
194/9 (20 ov)
RCB won by 11 runs
Result23 April 2025
Match 41
SRH
SRH
143/8 (20 ov)
MI
MI
146/3 (15.4 ov)
MI won by 7 wickets
Result22 April 2025
Match 40
LSG
LSG
159/6 (20 ov)
DC
DC
161/2 (17.5 ov)
DC won by 8 wickets
Result21 April 2025
Match 39
KKR
KKR
159/8 (20 ov)
GT
GT
198/3 (20 ov)
GT won by 39 runs
Result20 April 2025
Match 38
MI
MI
177/1 (15.4 ov)
CSK
CSK
176/5 (20 ov)
MI won by 9 wickets
Result20 April 2025
Match 37
PBKS
PBKS
157/6 (20 ov)
RCB
RCB
159/3 (18.5 ov)
RCB won by 7 wickets
Result19 April 2025
Match 36
RR
RR
178/5 (20 ov)
LSG
LSG
180/5 (20 ov)
LSG won by 2 runs
Result19 April 2025
Match 35
GT
GT
204/3 (19.2 ov)
DC
DC
203/8 (20 ov)
GT won by 7 wickets
Result18 April 2025
Match 34
RCB
RCB
95/9 (14 ov)
PBKS
PBKS
98/5 (12.1 ov)
PBKS won by 5 wickets
Result17 April 2025
Match 33
MI
MI
166/6 (18.1 ov)
SRH
SRH
162/5 (20 ov)
MI won by 4 wickets
Result16 April 2025
Match 32
DC
DC
188/5 (20) & 13/0 (0.4)
RR
RR
188/4 (20) & 11/2 (0.5)
DC won by superover
Result15 April 2025
Match 31
PBKS
PBKS
111/10 (15.3 ov)
KKR
KKR
95/10 (15.1 ov)
PBKS won by 16 runs
Result14 April 2025
Match 30
LSG
LSG
166/7 (20 ov)
CSK
CSK
168/5 (19.3 ov)
CSK won by 5 wickets
Result13 April 2025
Match 29
DC
DC
193/10 (19 ov)
MI
MI
205/5 (20 ov)
MI won by 12 runs

On 100 years of Dev Anand, Saira Banu reveals why she declined ‘Guide’

On 100 years of Dev Anand, Saira Banu reveals why she declined ‘Guide’

Mumbai, Sep 26 (IANS) On the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema - Dev Anand, veteran actress Saira Banu shared a few fond memories with the former, revealing how he used to forward roles to her in his movies.

Saira, who has become an ardent social media user, took to photo-sharing application Instagram and shared a black and white throwback picture with Dev Anand. She also posted two video clips from their movie ‘Pyar Mohabbat’.

The actress penned a long note, which read: “Happy 100th Birthday! In the 1955 film 'C.I.D.' Dev Saab wanted to cast my mother Naseemji but at that time Sultan bhai and I were schooling in London and she had to be there with us, so she declined. Shakilaji did the same role. A similar thing happened in the 1958 film 'Kaala Paani' where Naseemji’s role was then played by Nalini Jaywant. Sahib had described her as the 'Greatest Actress' he ever worked with”.

“We the family knew Dev Saab as an effervescent and friendly guy who loved all of us, be it Sahib, Naseemji, and myself. His favourite punch line was 'Hey! We must meet' but that happened infrequently,” she said.

Saira went on to say: “For Shankar Mukerji’s 'PYAAR MOHABBAT', Saab and I were filming on a huge ship from Bombay to Aden, shooting on board songs, romantic and comedy scenes with a houseful of foreigner Tourist laden Europeans. The journey was for a couple of days and we were to finish our work in that time. Now, would you believe it, he was so withdrawn of this crowd of foreigners that on the first day he wanted to get accustomed to the idea of them being out there".

‘Pyar Mohabbat’ is a 1966 film produced and directed by Shankar Mukherjee. It stars Dev Anand and Saira Banu in pivotal roles.

“He was a shy, withdrawn person Dev Saab, he felt he had to get used to the faces of the crowd before starting the work. 'Shankar I have to relax and get used to the faces of these foreigners'. The next day Shankarji and I ventured into his cabin and talked to him. I said, 'Look you have to pick me up and throw me into the swimming pool and time is running out soon, the ship will land at Aden in a day's time and we must pack up!'. I got him out and it was a smooth sailing since then.”

Saira shared an anecdote and revealed why she declined the 1965 romantic drama ‘Guide’, directed by Vijay Anand and produced by Dev Anand, who co-starred in the film with Waheeda Rehman.

“Fortunately Dev Saab would always forward a role to me in his film, one good example was 'Guide' for which Ted Danielwski came to my mother’s Nepean Sea Road House at ‘Sea Belle’ to ask me for the film. At that time I was to do Mehboob Khan’s ‘HABBA KHATOON” , the story of the Kashmiri poetess and the role of Yusuf Chak, the Kashmiri prince was to be played by Sahib. This was my priority and so I had to decline 'Guide'", she said.

Promising more stories in the future, she concluded: “I am happy about this because I feel I would have been too young to do this role. Similarly I could not do 'TEEN DEVIYAAN' or 'JEWEL THIEF'. Now, there's another funny incident with Devji, I will write about it tomorrow.”