Recall this scene from Amar Akbar Anthony when Anthony (Amitabh Bachchan) has been bashed up by Parveen Babi’s boyfriend in the song My name is Anthony Gonsalves, in a drunk state he talks to his reflection and tries to apply for the medicine, not on himself but his reflection in the mirror. This scene became immortal in Bollywood history.
Another iconic mirror scene was in the 1960 film Kohinoor performed by Dilip Kumar and Jeevan. This was the copy of a Hollywood film 'Duck Soup' released in 1933, performed by Harpo Marx and Groucho Marx. The same scene was repeated in the 1985 film 'Mard' performed by Amitabh Bachchan and Prem Chopra.
Scene from Kohinoor 1960
Original scene from Duck Soup 1933
Mirror Scene of Amae Akbar anthony 1977
In 1977 film there was a fight sequence in which the hero is surrounded by many mirrors that prevent him from locating the villain. This scene came earlier in the 1973 film Enter the Dragon in which Bruce Lee is surrounded by mirrors His solution: to break the mirrors with his bare fists.
Like Bruce Lee, Vinod shatters every surface with his hands, but then seems to be felled by one of Chacha’s bullets… Or not. Sometimes, the mirror lies too.
Tinnu Anand’s Kaalia (1981) incorporates reflective surfaces in the climax, where Kaalia (Amitabh Bachchan) bursts into the den of Shahani Seth (Amjad Khan) and shoots him – only to realize it’s a mirror image.
Scene from Kaalia
Omkara: released in 2006 Langda Tyagi (Saif Ali Khan) is enraged about not being made a baahubali by Omkara (Ajay Devgn). Saif apparently sees his reflection of what he was and was supporting and serving Omkara day-in and day-out and realizes he needs to shatter this image and move up the ladder of success. This is his transformative moment in the movie. What follows the next moment is, he literally shatters the mirror with his arm and applies the blood on his forehead signaling vengeance.
Scene from Omkara
No Smoking:The central character of the movie K (yeah, just K, John Abraham) is a narcissist and thus talks to himself in the mirror admiring his lean physique speaking ‘Nobody tells me what to do’ over and over again. Mirror has been very smartly used here as a medium to show his narcissistic traits.
Scene from No Smoking
Ghazni mirror scene
Tamasha is a 2015 movie where Ranbir Kapoor is always looking in the mirror and his reflection is depicting what he desires from all his heart. Remember the dialogue at the beginning of the movie where the clown (Deepika Padukone) says ‘Main hoon na, iske dil ki aawaz’
Scene from Tamasha
