Bollywood veteran Saira Banu took to her social media account today to pen down a beautiful note along with an anecdote about her debut movie, Junglee.  Sharing a poster of the movie, Saira wrote, "Fifty-five years ago, a young, wide-eyed girl stood before the camera for the very first time, uncertain, nervous, and trembling with both excitement and fear. That girl was me.”

She further wrote, “Upon my return from London, I was blessed with film offers from prestigious studios like A.V.M. and Gemini and filmmakers I deeply admired, like Kamal Amrohi, Ramanand Sagar, B.R. Chopra, and dear S. Mukherjee Uncle of Filmalaya, the man who gave Indian cinema radiant stars like Sadhana and Asha Parekh. He had initially wanted to cast me opposite Sunil Dutt Sahab in Hum Hindustani, but destiny had other plans. His brother, Subodh Mukherjee Uncle, was readying a new venture called JUNGLEE, a story that needed a mischievous, spirited girl…”