- Country: India
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1977-03-11
- Director: K. Balachander
- Writers: Inder Raj Anand , K. Balachander
- Language: Hindi | Tamil | Malayalam
- Stars: Mumtaz , Rajesh Khanna , A.K. Hangal , Nirupa Roy , Lalita Pawar , Manmohan Krishna , Adil Amaan , Rita Bhaduri , Jayasudha , Anjum Savera
- Runtime: 150 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Aaina , Aaina (India) , Aaina (United States of America)
- Plot: Retired Ram Shastri is an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin who lives in a small Indian village and has a huge family which consists of his wife, Savitri, five daughters and three sons. In order to maintain his family he usually conducts small religious rituals for a merger amount with this being the only means of survival for the family. Ram's eldest daughter, Shalini has an admirer, Ashok who wants to marry her but Ashok's village chief father, Jagannath Rao will not permit his son to do so forcing Ashok to leave the house and join the army. Shortly after Jagannath gets a letter stating that his son has been killed. Additionally, Ram values his principles more and thus with the advent of the new era people from the Hindu community refuses to have any doings with him which leads to suffering among his family members. Unable to witness this Shalini decides to satisfy all her family's aspirations by making prostitution her career; on the occasion of her brother's Gautam wedding Shalini's bitter truth gets revealed to her family members changing lives forever.
- IMDB:tt0154178
Aaina Cast · · · ALL
K. Balachander
Director
Mumtaz
Shalini R. Shastri
Nirupa Roy
Savitri R. Shastri
A.K. Hangal
Ram Shastri
Rajesh Khanna
Special Appearance
Lalita Pawar
Janki
Rita Bhaduri
Poorna R. Shastri
Jayasudha
Usha G. Shastri
Manmohan Krishna
Jagannath Rao
Jagdish Raj
Madan Puri
Jagdeep
Suresh Chatwal
Kamal Haasan
Prem Kapoor
Dharmendra
Himself
Neetu Singh
Herself