Koshish

Hari and Aarti marry. Both of them are deaf and unable to speak. The account covers twenty years of a life. The first years of the marriage are hard. People around them always look on from outside. The two of them build an order of their own. They understand each other by signs and by habit. In time they have a child. The child can hear and can speak. That opens new questions inside the family. The growing of the child is the second part of the account. The mother and father think about his future. Sanjeev Kumar and Jaya Bachchan take the leads, with Asrani and Dina Pathak also in the cast, in Gulzar’s Indian film of 1972.