Koshish 1972

Koshish is a 1972 Indian Bollywood social, musical, family drama, of film released on Jan 01, 1972. The film is directed by Gulzar, produced by Romu N. Sippy.

Haricharan (Sanjiv Kumar) and Aarti (Jaya Bhaduri) are deaf and dumb. They fall in love and marry each other. Aarti's brother is a gambler and wastes money on wine and gambling. He steals a cycle, money and ornaments from Aarti's house. He leaves the door open after he runs away and Aarti loses her baby who goes put of the house, but both his parents cannot hear him do so. They get other child, a baby boy. The story deals with the problems they face and how in spite of being deaf and dumb they walk through life happily. Aarti dies and Haricharan remains alone with his son Amit. Finally Amit gets married to Haricharan's boss's daughter Sunita, who is also deaf and dumb.

The movie has a young deaf and dumb newspaer vendor and a young deaf-dumb girl, who by a common bondage of physical disability to speak and hear, come nearer and unite in marriage. Coincidentally, before their normal grown-up son and a deaf-dumb daughter of the newsmans boss could be married, a lot of drama passess by. The film tries to establish that silence is the climax of sound. The handicapped deserve human, sympathetic understanding and not pity. - This is s story set in the awesome world of silence. Not the Silence that springs from the lack of speech, but the silence borm of speech. Of the world Aarti, the world of Hari, the world of without words. . They met, one day at a grocers shop. Aarti in hurry, was trying her best to convey to the grocer her needs. A difficult task at all times for one denied the gift of speech. Hari too was in a great hurry and almost seem to imitate. Aarti in his efforts to get the grocer underst and what he wanted. Without words. . For a moment, their looks met, and they noticed each otherls childlike gestures. Was it that one was imitating the other? No, Aarti and Hari one thing in comman. They spoke the same language. The language of deaf and dumb. . They met again. Hari was crossing the street when he noticed Aarti being harassed by roadside romeos. Chivalrously, Hari come to her rescue and escorted her home to safely. The seeds of heart-marming romance had been sown. . Hari sold newspapers in the morning, pedalling bicycle from house to house as he, delivered papers and eled out a meagre living. Aarti lived with her mother and her brother kanu. Kanu was unscrupulous youngman, a theif and blackmarketer in cinema ticket. He kept a mistress and in trying to provide for the woman and his own pleasures, he once attempted to rob poor Aarti, taking mean advantage to her being stone deaf. . Hari Aarti shortly discovered that they had much more common apart from their so-called deficiency of hearing and speaking. They were deeply in love and with the blessings of Aartis mother, they were joined on holy wedlock. . When it is known that Aarti was in the family way, her mother feared that their child would inherit their common handicap. These fears proved to be baseless, not before they passed through many anxious moments and faced trials peculiar to those who have been deprived of the power of speech and hearing. Yet their handicap one stormy night was the direct cause of their losing their first born Kanu entered their room to steal his sisters necklace. Whilst Aarti and Hari were deep in slumber, and paved the way for the small child to crawl to a watery grave outside the house. . It is said that the ways of Providence are inscrutable. Aarti and Hari were blessed with another offspring again a perfectly normal child. This time they had in the house an angelic soul, a blind man who took upon himself the task of acting as their tounge and their ears. He could not see but could hear and talk. When their child woke up in the middle of the night, crying and blind man would wake the sleeping parents. . Thus time went by Hari moved from newspaper vendor to shoeshine boy, til he finally reached the position of an officer in a printing press. Something he owed as much to his inherent honesty and capacity for hard work as he did to a sympathetic and understanding boss. The man had a definite reason for being so inclined towards his employee. He had a daughter who like Hari was totally deaf and dumb. . By this time Aarti and Hari had reached middle-age and their son Amit was a smart collegian. One evening, they were all invited by the boss for a cup of tea. The purpose ? A proposal of marriage between their respective children. The normal son of deficient parents, and the handicapped daughter of normal parents. . To his fathers utter shock, Amit refused to consider the match and accept as his bride a beautiful young girl who spoke same language as his own dear and dumb parents. The shock is too much for Hari to bear. The dream world they had built with their courage and fortitute, the strngth which they had found and that enabled them to slog and to suffer that they may raise their only son to be an educated man-all collapsed like a house of cards in the face Amits educational career seemed so much a waste of time and his father threw out his books and his academic degrees. All worthless. When Amit had so badly failed to pass the test of life. . Yet all is never lost and in a final assessment. Amit realised his terrible mistake and in an effort to make amends, he agreed to marry the girl of his fathers choice - the girl he had been so cruel to have once rejected. The efforts of the deaf and dumb couple to build a family and a world of their own at last had taken roots. Check out this page for more updates on Koshish.