When Dilip Kumar secretly married another woman which came as a shock to Saira Banu: 'The shattering of faith she had in me'

Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu always proved to be the perfect couple, who seemed so in love. Despite the fact that the legendary 'Devdas' actor has now passed away in 2021, Saira is head-over-heels in love with him and she continues to display that on social media. But did you know that after his marriage to Saira, Dilip had married another woman. The actor confessed of feeling guilty about it though.

The actor had confessed about his second marriage in his autobiography, 'The Substance And The Shadow: An Autobiography'. He had spoken about his second marriage which started as an innocent interaction between a star and his fan in Hyderabad. The actor had met Asma through his sisters and was told that she was married with three children. But Asma and her husband were showing up wherever he went as if they knew his itinerary. "I was completely unaware of a connivance that was being mischievously perpetuated and a situation being cleverly created by vested interests to draw a commitment from me," he wrote.

He later married Asma in 1981 and Saira got to know about it when she read it in the papers. The actress still did not believe it as she trusted him implicitly, till he told her about it. He wrote, "I can never forget or forgive myself for the hurt I caused to Saira and the shattering of the unshakeable faith she had in me." Dilip Kumar and Asma were married for two years.

Admitting that marrying Asma was a grace mistake, he divorced her. "Saira stood by me when I admitted the grave mistake and asked her to give me some time to undo the wrong through proper legal processes and restore the sanctity of our marriage of sixteen years. I requested Saira to give me some time to sort it all out," confessed the actor. Dilip Kumar signed a letter of commitment to Saira to restore the promise he had made to her parents that there would never be a talk of any second marriage.

By the end of it all, in retrospect when the actor thought of it, he felt that this incident was for a divine purpose and it strengthened his bond with Saira.