Aaina () is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Deepak Sareen, produced by Yash Chopra and his wife Pamela Chopra. It stars Jackie Shroff, Amrita Singh, Juhi Chawla in lead roles, with Deepak Tijori in a supporting role. The film was a blockbuster hit and solidified Chawla's career as a leading lady in the 1990s. Singh's performance in a negative role was highly appreciated and is regarded as one of her career-best performances. The film was remade in Telugu as Aayanaki Iddaru (1995), in Tamil as Kalyana Vaibhogam (1997) and in Kannada as Yare Nee Abhimani (2000).
Plot
Rajnesh Mathur, a wealthy businessman has two daughters. Roma, the elder one is very competitive and has always been spoiled. Beautiful and shy, Reema is quite reserved and usually lets Roma take the spotlight. The film starts when there is a school competition and Reema wins first prize and Roma wins second. Roma does not want to accept the second prize so Reema gives her the prize she got. They both grow up to be entirely different. Reema (Juhi Chawla) meets Ravi Saxena (Jackie Shroff) at a bookstore and immediently falls in love with him even though she has admired him through his books. Later on, Ravi decides to buys some paintings however, all his favourite paintings have been sold by Roma (Amrita Singh) and whilst she admires a painting he buys it. She then lets him buy it but he returns the painting and later Roma buys the painting. The owner of the painting shop gives Ravi her personal card. He then stares at it for a while and decides to call the number but he gets too shy and so his brother calls and informs Ravi that she is at a auction shop. Whilst Roma is bidding for a mirror and sink, toilet and bathtub, she loses to Ravi. The next day, Ravi sends all of the things she was bidding for at her house and leaves his number on the mirror. She asks to meet him at a cafè. Roma asks why she Ravi is behind Roma all the time and he confesses his love to her. She gets a letter and some flowers. However, they decide to meet at a cafè again and a modelling agency approaches Roma and asks if he can take some photos for the cover of a magazine. She agrees and after they take the photos, Ravi proposes to her and asks her to marry him. She wants him to ask her family first. Rajnesh gets Reema ready thinking Ravi is going to ask Reema's hand in marriage. He sends Reema to the kitchen and she quietly listens to the conversation. Ravi tells Rajnesh that he wants to marry Roma and he agrees. Rajnesh goes to the kitchen and hugs Reema and apologizes to her. Roma comes and Ravi and Roma are engaged. Their wedding is fixed.
The modelling agency and Roma go to Ravi's office after the magazine goes successful and he shows Ravi the magazine, Roma asks Ravi if she can continue modelling but he doesn't want her to. Roma then declines modelling and Roma and Ravi decide to go to the theatres. However, Roma, behind Ravi's back continues her photoshoots and modelling as Ravi is patiently waiting at the theatres for her. When Roma arrives she lies and tells him that her friend got into an accident. However, some men recognize Roma as she is now known as the glamour girl and they start harassing Roma which infuriates Ravi. They end up into a fight. They later go away and Ravi explained to her that the reason why he didn't want her to do modelling was because of situations like these. Roma apologizes and promises him to go to the theatres with him the next day. On the day she was meant to go to the theatres with him, she gets a call from the modelling agency and she is offered to do more shots and she agrees and tells Reema and Ravi that she has a major headache. Ravi then takes Reema to his honeymoon cottage which is known to be very calm and therapeutic for him and is where he goes when he is overwhelmed. He then shows Reema the room he arranged for Roma after their marriage. He explains to Reema that he wants Roma to have Reema's personality and Reema says to fix things with Roma.
The day before the wedding, Roma gets offered a film by the modelling agency and she tells him that she gets married the day they shoot. This infuriates the modelling agency and he tells Roma that no one has interest in married women so she either gets married or does the film. Reema brings Roma's wedding outfit into her room but she is no where to be found. Reema finds a letter from Roma which explains that she wants to do a film and that she wants Ravi to forgive her and that they will get married when she returns. To protect the honours of the Mathurs, Ravi asks Rajnesh his permission for him to marry Reema which she denies to. She then later agrees to marrying him.