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'''''Koshish''''' (meaning something like "The Attempt", "The Effort", "The Struggle"), is a 1972 Hindi movie. It depicts the story of a deaf and mute woman Aarti (Jaya Badhuri, later Jaya Bachchan, wife of [[Amitabh Bachchan]] and mother of [[Abhishek Bachchan]]) who meets for a deaf and mute man Hari ([[Sanjeev Kumar]]). Both working class people with few resources, [[Slice of Life|they go to a school for disabled people together, walk along the beach, befriend a blind man, fall in love, place prank calls, get married, have a nondisabled child, lose the child under horrifically sad circumstances, have another nondisabled child, become more middle class with the help of Hari's kindly and broad-minded boss, and live to a ripe old age together, communicating all the while without spoken words.]] (They use sign language, and it helps that both the leads have highly expressive eyes and body language).