{"id":95889,"date":"2025-08-25T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95889\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:59:09","slug":"actress-on-south-indian-cinemas-navel-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95889\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress On South Indian Cinema&#8217;s Navel Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/daisyshah11756086169.jpg\" align=\"absmiddle\" alt=\"Actress On South Indian Cinema's Navel Obsession\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actress Daisy Shah, who has acted in several Kannada films, recently spoke about what she called the industry\u2019s unusual \u201cnavel obsession.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She recalled watching Kannada songs during her film shoot and noticing a repeated pattern; close up shots of heroines\u2019 navels, often with fruit salads, ice, or water being placed or poured on them.<\/p>\n<p>Though Daisy did not mention any names, social media users quickly speculated that she was indirectly referring to actor-filmmaker V\u00a0Ravichandran, known for such unique song sequences.<\/p>\n<p>Many online comments joked about his style, with one user even calling him \u201cChief Navel Officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Telugu netizens also mentioned about K Raghavendra Rao, the director who pioneered &#8216;navel obsession&#8217; in South Indian cinema, the path on which even Ravinchandran went on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the subject has come up. A few months earlier, actress Malavika Mohanan had also commented on how South Indian cinema often highlights actresses\u2019 navels.<\/p>\n<p>She admitted it felt strange coming from Mumbai, where such focus was uncommon, but said the \u201cnavel obsession\u201d is indeed very real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Daisy Shah, who has acted in several Kannada films, recently spoke about what she called the industry\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,53615,75,56003],"class_list":{"0":"post-95889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-daisy-shah","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-navel-obsession"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}