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Anand Anand Saigal (Rajesh Khanna), an unusual, interesting man, who lived what remained of his life fully, completely. Treating every living moment as magic, every minute a miracle, every hour a gift. A man whose life inspired his friend Dr. Bhaskar banerjee (Amitabh Bachchan) to write a book that wins the coveted Saraswati Award. Anand Saigal is a terminally ill, cancer patient, who with his non stip chatter, boisterous humour, and never say die attitude touches the lives of everyone he comes in contact with. His metaphorical search for his long lost friend Murarilal is the high point of the film. One of the India's finest directors, Hrishikesh Mukherjee teams up with Gulzar as lyricist and dilaogue writer to give us some of the best lines in Hindi Cinema and some hauntingly lovely songs. It plays on your heartstrings, but in the end you will agree, "Anand lives on". Aashirwad Shivnath Choudhary lives a wealthy lifestyle in Chandanpur, India, along with his wife, Leela, and 8 year old daughter, Neena. He likes to mingle with poor folk much, especially Baiju, to the chagrin of his wife, who shuns them and only tolerates them as long as they continue to pay taxes. When Shivnath steals money to help dwellers, Leela has the huts burnt down and forbids him from seeing Neena ever again. Hurt and confused, Shivnath flees to Bombay,where he befriends a man named Mahadev and makes ome money entertaining young children, including a girl named Neena. When Neena passes away, Shivnath returns to Chandanpur only find the village in ruins, and Rukmini, the daughter of Baiju, abducted and being held by Ramdas, Leela's Munim. Shivnath tracks Ramdas down, kills him, and is subsequently arrested and sentenced to prison for 14 years. He passes his time writing poems for Neena and hopes to see her one day when he gets to see her in the prison yard along with her fiance, Dr. Biren, who is the doctor attached to the prison, but finds that she loathes convicts. He hides his real identify from her, and she subsequently warms up to him and even talks with him about her dad. He also finds out that she is to be married soon. A day befor ehre marriage, Shivnath has a stroke and is hospitalized. The nixt day he is told that the rest of his term has been pardoned and he is free to leave when he recovers. Shivnath insists on leaving immediately. Seriously ill, and facing the risk of being shunned by eeveryone will Shivnath make it to Neena's wedding in time? Koshish This is an inspiring film, the story of Hari (Sanjeev Kumar) and Arti (Jaya Bhaduri), whose world is silent, soundless but not soulless. Thoug deaf and dumb they are able to communicate their feelings for each other and get married. Working as a newspaper delivery boy, Hari, by sheeer dint of effort and honesty rises to become an officer in a printing press. Hari and Arti have already lost one child to an accident, because of their handicap. When Arti become pregnant again, and delivers a normal child, a son, their joy knows no bounds. Their son grows up to a strapping, handsome lad with the parents doting on him. But their "Koshish" (attempt) to be normal is shattered when their son (Amit) callously refuses to marry a girl because she is deaf and dumb. Hari and Arti are distressed beyond end by his failure to pass the test of being their dutiful son. After much soul searching. Amit realizes his shortcomings and to make amends, agrees to marry the girl. Hari and Arti succeed in building a family, their own, a family that is wordless, but not meaningless.