{"id":310941,"date":"2026-02-26T08:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/310941\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:22:13","slug":"taapsee-pannu-talks-about-film-industrys-obsession-with-female-actors-cleavage-midriff-defends-doing-glamorous-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/310941\/","title":{"rendered":"Taapsee Pannu talks about film industry’s obsession with female actors’ cleavage, midriff; defends doing glamorous roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu <\/a>recently addressed the film industry\u2019s obsession with female actors\u2019 midriffs and cleavage. The actor clarified that her earlier remarks about Bollywood being obsessed with cleavage and the South film industry with midriffs were taken out of context. She also revealed why she initially chose not to take up such roles at the start of her career.<\/p>\n

\"TaapseeTaapsee Pannu talked about the film industry’s obsession with female actor’s cleavage and midriff.Taapsee Pannu on film industry’s obsession with female actors’ cleavage and midriff<\/p>\n

Earlier, in an interview<\/a> with Galatta Plus, Taapsee explained that in a previous podcast she was asked about the South industry\u2019s alleged obsession with the midriff and told that Hindi cinema focuses more on a female actor\u2019s cleavage. However, her response was taken out of context. She added that, for her, the issue is about a certain gaze, whether it is the cleavage or the midriff.<\/p>\n

She further clarified that she never demarcated it as Hindi being obsessed with cleavage and the South with midriffs. She also spoke about how she was never asked to expose her midriff or pad her bras in Bollywood, but was asked to do so in the South, largely because she did not take up glamorous roles in Hindi cinema.<\/p>\n

She said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what the obsession is, but let\u2019s own that there\u2019s an obsession, whether in Hindi or in the South. Which part of yours is highlighted, that\u2019s not the point. The point is, there\u2019s an obsession. It was obviously awkward for the director as well because they had to convey this to me. And how do you do that when the set hardly has any women, right? So, you have to convey it indirectly. When she comes back from the van, the director obviously has to check whether it works or not. So, this whole process is slightly awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n

She further defended taking up those parts and said, \u201cI was too new. I thought this was how it\u2019s done. The director is the captain of the ship, and you have to listen to the captain. I had to do it, unless it was really crossing the line. You also feel this is what heroines are doing, so I\u2019m also supposed to do this. I never look back at it thinking I wish I hadn\u2019t done those parts. Because if I didn\u2019t do it, I\u2019d always be craving to do that. No matter what you do, you want to be called a mainstream actress. Unless you do those parts, you won\u2019t be called a mainstream actress.\u201d<\/p>\n

About Taapsee Pannu\u2019s recent release<\/p>\n

Taapsee is currently winning praise for her performance in Assi, directed by Anubhav Sinha. The courtroom drama, which sees Taapsee play a lawyer fighting to secure justice for a rape survivor, also stars Kani Kusruti, Revathi, Manoj Pahwa, Kumud Mishra and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub in key roles. The film has received a mixed response from critics and has so far collected over \u20b95 crore at the box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu recently addressed the film industry\u2019s obsession with female actors\u2019 midriffs and cleavage. The actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1558,458,146,85,46,62669,109465],"class_list":{"0":"post-310941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bollywood","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-south-cinema","14":"tag-taapsee-pannu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}