The particular style of sari became extremely popular and was dubbed the Mumtaz Sari. The film Ek Duuje Ke Liye, a remake of the Maro Charitra featured the replication of the "top spinning on the navel" scene with Rati Agnihotri. She had stated in an interview," Today, when someone asks me how I balanced the top, I don't have an answer. Those days we didn't have monitors, the luxury of too many rehearsals or retakes. I did what was expected of me, telling myself it was like dramatics day in school, only instead of the stage I was facing a camera ".
The film Khalnayak was famous for the song "Choli ke Peeche" featuring Madhuri Dixit in navel-exposing attire. In the film Jism, actress Bipasha Basu appeared in a foreplay scene with an ice cube on her navel.
Actress Aishwarya Rai showcased her navel in a brocade choli and dipped ghagra for the hit song "Kajra Re" in the film Bunty aur Babli Katrina Kaif became famous for her dance performance showcasing her navel for the item number Sheila Ki Jawani for the film Tees Maar Khan. Film critic Baradwaj Rangan stated on his blog in a review for the film, " Katrina Kaif makes her entry in the well-shot, well-scored Sheela ki jawani song sequence, brandishing a belly button that seems to have a life of its own " For the film The Dirty Picture, actress Vidya Balan had acted in a scene where an egg put on her navel becomes an omelette.
She stated in an interview," It was difficult to control laughter and Milan used to wait to get me into the character because all this was part of the song and dance of those times to market the Silk phenomenon ".
Recently, Rakhi sawant appeared in an item song "Latto Ghuma Re Chora" for the film Rakhtbeej in which a top is spun on her midriff and navel. She stated in an interview that the filming was painful since the director spun the sharp-pointed top 30 times on her midriff. The Censor Board of India for Indian cinema has created some limitations on "vulgar" visuals, such as restricting zoom shots of the navel, kissing the navel, and squeezing the navel and waist.
It had been implemented during the s. Many films have faced censor cuts for navel scenes. Many actors have expressed mixed views on the display of and emphasize of the navel. Some feel displaying the midriff or navel cannot be considered exposing when compared to Hollywood films.
Actress Shilpa Shetty argued, "If navel-showing is obscenity, then our traditional Indian outfit—the traditional sari—should be banned in the first place. They can wear skirts but not too much below the navel. They sometimes object to showing the navel of a woman when, in other films, it is allowed. We cannot even question them. The censors should give us general rules in writing as to what is allowed and what is not, instead of taking decisions according to their whims and fancies.
Madhavan commented, "I have often been embarrassed to see certain films I have done. I think sensuality can be expressed in other ways. Japan has long had a special regard for the navel. During the early Jomon period in northern Japan, three small balls indicating the breasts and navel were pasted onto flat clay objects to represent the female body. The navel was exaggerated in size, informed by the belief that the navel symbolizes the center of where life begins. On many middle Jomon figurines, the significance of the navel was emphasized with an indentation or hole.
Sometimes, the importance of the navel was further enhanced by connecting with a line from the navel towards the chest. Early Japanese poems feature many references to the female navel. In some, the word navel actually refers to an indentation or hole instead of the belly button.
The shape of the umbilicus of a newborn baby would be discussed at length. If a baby's navel points downward, the parents would brace themselves for a weakling child who will bring them woe. The thunder god Raijin, with his terrifying drums, great horns, and long tusks, was said to have an insatiable appetite for young navels, and mothers had to nag their youngsters constantly to keep themselves well covered up.
Due to the mythology, navel exposure was not encouraged in the earlier times. The traditional clothing of Japanese women has a wide cloth belt around the midriff to protect the belly and keep it warm. The Japanese believe the belly is the source of person's warmth and that the perfect navel is an innie.
Although navel exposure has become a recent trend in fashion in Japan, annual Heso Matsuri "belly button festivals" have been held in Japan since the late s.
The tradition of the Hokkaido Heso Odori "belly button dance" began in Dancers make their heso "belly button" into a face, using paint, special costumes, and props. Many variations of the dance have been developed, leading to competitions among dancers, who compete for prizes in various categories. A similar type festival is held at Shibukawa, north of Tokyo. The idea was formed based on the location of Shibukawa, which is also referred to as the "Belly Button of Japan". The festival is based on a traditional Japanese form of entertainment where revelers paint a face on their torsos and stomachs to appear as a head.
A kimono is wrapped around the waist, and the person's real head is hidden by a large cloth hat. The belly button is traditionally painted into a mouth. In recent years, modern motifs and Japanese anime designs have appeared in the festival.
Sigiriya frescoes depict royal ladies wearing cloth draped as a dhoti , tied in a knot at the front and pulled down to expose the navel. They wear pleated robes from the waist upwards, as well a necklace, armlets, wristlets, ear and hair ornaments, and display their breasts.
The ladies in waiting wear waist clothes, a few ornaments and a firm thanapatiya "breast bandage". In the Sinhalese poetic work Kaviyasekara, a father advises his married daughter as to proper clothing, "Dress your garment above your navel, without exposing the fair bosom, and expose not your teeth in laughing.
In his work Daily Code for the Laity , the Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala wrote that a sari blouse must be long, fully covering a woman's breasts, midriff, navel, and back. In the s and s, a visible navel was very rare. By the late s, the Bollywood connection and the media and technological changes that occurred in India has influenced Sri Lanka's fashion outlook, with the navel becoming a focus in the modern Sri Lankan wardrobe.
Sri Lankan films commonly depict the women of the country's earliest history as scantily clad with exposed navels, and the country has become more open to the topic in general. In , the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spoke out against exposed navels, saying, "Indonesian women, who are known for their courtesy, should refrain from exposing their midriffs or belly buttons, which now seems to be taken for granted.
There are many ways to express beauty, as part of aesthetics, and to express freedom but not by showing things that lead to pornography. A week later, a cabinet minister quoted Yudhoyono as saying that he felt "disturbed and uneasy" to see television shows in which women exposed their navels. The exhibit was surrounded by massive panels with multiple pictures of a near-naked man and woman frolicking in a park. Within days of the exhibition's launch, Islamic fundamentalists had descended on the biennale, forcing its closure and demanding prosecutions.
At first police claimed his work blasphemed the story of Adam and Eve; a few weeks later they told Suwage he faced five years in jail for producing pornography. The Indonesian parliament decided to introduce a sweeping anti-pornography law.
The law imposes a rigid social template; couples who kiss in public will face up to five years' jail, as would anyone flaunting a "sensual body part"—including their navel—and tight clothing will be outlawed. Due to this new anti-pornography law, topless bathing and surfing on the beaches of Bali, a common practice among tourists, would also be prohibited.
The law would also affect older tribal women, who often still walk topless. The introduction of a bill was attacked by women's rights campaigners in the country, who fear it is the first step towards the implementation of Islamic Sharia law. Despite these laws, pop singers such as Inul Daratista, known for her hip swaying moves, and Agnes Monica continue exposing their navels, but undergo some restrictions in advertisements.
Traditionally, Korean women are expected to dress modestly. The traditional wear such as Hanbok cover the entire body. During the s, the fashion trend among young South Korean women for wearing cropped T-shirts that leave the midriff exposed had started, due to the hot climatic conditions. The trend spread to create changes in female fashion such that when a policeman in Kwangju arrested two young women for flaunting their belly buttons in the street, the judge threw the case out, ruling that the flashing of a female navel was not indecent.
It further became popular due to Korean pop culture, where K-pop stars started wearing body piercings and midriff-exposing shirts. One among the many limitations was "no exposing of navels". During the s, it became common among young women to expose their belly buttons by rolling up their shirts similar to a crop-top. During sport events such as football, the female audience apply body paints or temporary tattoos around their belly buttons.
In , Korean girl group Rainbow's dance routine that involved lifting up their shirts to expose their navels became popular.
The band stated in an interview, "We have to keep our abs in shape for the belly button dance. In , Yoona, a member of Korean girl band Girls' Generation, caused a minor controversy by revealing an exposed midriff featuring a protruding cantaloupe-like outie navel, which started a spirited discussion and polarized opinions on the Chinese-language internet.
In , Vivienne, a virtual girlfriend created by software maker Artificial Life Inc. He commented that there must be proper attire for women, including clothes that do not reveal the navel, saying Muslim women must be covered from head to toe except for their face and hands, while Muslim men must be decently dressed when in public.
Under Malaysian government rules for stage performances, a female artist must be covered from her shoulders to her knees. In Indian traditional medicine, the Cyperus rotundus tuber is made into a paste and applied around the navel to relieve pain caused by roundworms. Pomegranate plant juice and paste is used to treat snake bites; the juice is dropped into the nostrils, ears, and navel.
Applying a little bit of ghee or mustard oil on cotton and keeping it on the navel overnight is considered a remedy for dry lips. Castor oil is applied to the navel of infants as a remedy for stomach aches. The Gonds, a tribe from central India, apply Gloriosa superba rhizome extract over the navel and vagina to cause labour pain and perform normal delivery. According to Ayurveda, the navel is an important site in the human body.
Nearly 72, subtle nerves, or nadis converge in this area. By the principles of Ayurveda and yoga, the human body is made up of six chakras , with the Manipura chakra located at the spine directly behind either the navel or the solar plexus, depending on the system, while its kshetram , or superficial activation point, is located directly on the navel and represents the element fire.
Vayu or vital wind as specified in Ayurveda, is divided into five sub categories. According to Ayurvedic principles, navel displacement is a condition in which the navel center shifts.
This might create digestive disorders. Proper practice of yoga is considered to be a remedy to realigning the navel. In Sri Lanka traditional medicine, a composition of herbs, powdered pepper, and water is applied as a paste to the navel as a remedy for stomach aches.
During difficulties in delivery, a betel leaf is placed on the woman's navel, which is believed to be under a spell. Laying wormwood on the female navel or spreading a paste of reindeer lichen on the navel were considered by Russian women to make the delivery of a child fast and painless.
Often, the navel is used as a moxibustion point. However, the navel itself is not used in acupuncture due to the likelihood of infection. Samiksha Jaiswal Editor I am a computer expert who loves a challenge. When I am not managing servers and fixing flaws, I write about it and other interesting things on various blogs.
Updated on Aug 10, Edit Like Comment Share. The navel has more sexual connotations in South Indian cinema than any other female body part. You see, it's one of the highly erogenous areas on a female body and when it comes to movies, visual imagery works best as a method of story telling in complicated and erotic scenes. Therefore, showing the belly button becomes an evocation of the sexual act, lust and love. A more commercial reason would be that showing the navel gives the director the space to portray love and lust in the most non-cringe worthy, PG way.
From Vijayashanti to Taapsee Pannu, every Tollywood, Mollywood and Kollywood actress has been subjected to close-up shots of their navel being shown to the public and well, not in the most tasteful manner. After all, it's the easiest gimmick to rope in the loyalists and motivate the potential moviegoer for the film, and rake in some serious moolah.
With a brief as simple and sexist as this, it's quite obvious that most directors down south will make it their life's mission to cash in on the fetish as much as they can.
The problem is so prevalent, that even movie posters have the leading ladies' belly button plastered across to lure in crowd.
But here's where the argument 'You give people what they want' comes in. After all, audience hi toh sab kuch hai. But how would the audience know any better if they aren't shown anything else? He continued, "Cinematically, while cleavage is just a peek at the bosom, the navel encompasses the woman's entire sensuality. The film Maro Charitra was the first to feature the scene where a top spins on the female protagonist's navel. Veteran Telugu film director Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao's movies always have guaranteed navel show of the heroines.
He used to include the navel of the heroine in every possible frame and exploit it in song sequences such as dropping of water, flowers, fruits, ice cubes etc. Prominent Telugu actor and director Dasari Narayana Rao had once commented, "When you see a heroine slightly removing her pallu to show her inside assets, you don't feel ashamed of it because of the artistic way in which Ragahvendra Rao projects it on the screen.
Especially heroines' navels look most beautiful in his movies. Raghavendra Rao. She told in an interview,"That's the third day of shooting with KRR sir and we're canning a song.
But actually he's not making any flower or fruit thrown at my navel or waist, that's why I took courage to ask him to hit my navel with them". The Telugu film Action 3D paid tribute to Raghavendra Rao with a song featuring his symbolic acts on the female protagonist's navel.
A song sequence in the Telugu spoof film Sudigadu features the main protagonist dropping a watermelon and a pumpkin on the female protagonist's navel. Actress Monal Gajjar who has acted in the scene had commented on an interview, "When the hero throws it on my tummy I am supposed to scream with a strange sound and they told me they are not real, all are toy fruits. Female dancers of Bollywood have always exposed their navels, since Amrapali , with cameras focused on them. In the Bollywood film Brahmachari , actress Mumtaz was seen in a Sharara sari showing her navel for a song and dance number, "Aaj kal tere mere".
A Sharara has a long blouse top with a unique divided skirt bottom, which has less flow than lehenga. It fits like a loose pant until reaching the knee, where it flares out.
The particular style of sari became extremely popular and was dubbed the Mumtaz Sari. The film Ek Duuje Ke Liye , a remake of the Maro Charitra featured the replication of the "top spinning on the navel" scene with Rati Agnihotri. She had stated in an interview," Today, when someone asks me how I balanced the top, I don't have an answer. Those days we didn't have monitors, the luxury of too many rehearsals or retakes.
I did what was expected of me, telling myself it was like dramatics day in school, only instead of the stage I was facing a camera ". The film Khalnayak was famous for the song "Choli ke Peeche" featuring Madhuri Dixit in navel-exposing attire. In the film Jism , actress Bipasha Basu appeared in a foreplay scene with an ice cube on her navel. Actress Aishwarya Rai showcased her navel in a brocade choli and dipped ghagra for the hit song "Kajra Re" in the film Bunty Aur Babli Katrina Kaif became famous for her dance performance showcasing her navel for the item number Sheila Ki Jawani for the film Tees Maar Khan.
Film critic Baradwaj Rangan stated on his blog in a review for the film, "Katrina Kaif makes her entry in the well-shot, well-scored Sheela ki jawani song sequence, brandishing a belly button that seems to have a life of its own".
For the film The Dirty Picture , actress Vidya Balan had acted in a scene where an egg put on her navel becomes an omelette. She stated in an interview, "It was difficult to control laughter and Milan used to wait to get me into the character because all this was part of the song and dance of those times to market the Silk phenomenon". Recently, Rakhi Sawant appeared in an item song "Latto Ghuma Re Chora" for the film Rakhtbeej in which a top is spun on her midriff and navel.
She stated in an interview that the filming was painful since the director spun the sharp-pointed top 30 times on her midriff. They are also known as 'Fantastic Four' of Bollywood. Actress Richa Chadda had commented in an event that she was asked during a shoot to reveal her navel in high-waisted pants. The navel culture is moderately popular in Bengali Industry. Though during the last decade it has been popularised.
Actress Rituparna Sengupta shows her navel during recent times also. Her navel has been spotted often in her recent films Actress Koel Mallick kept her navel hidden for a long time, but in the movie Arundhati film she bared her tummy completely and showed off her navel which created a storm among the fans.
But She had not exposed her navel anymore again after that movie. Actress Sreelekha Mitra did a bare tummy show in the movie Ashchorjyo Prodeep, in the scene she wore a blouse and petticoat and her stomach was bare.
In recent times, Actress Raima Sen has shown off her navel twice. In the movie Roga Howar Sohoj Upay, Raima in a scene removes her saree and holds her lower belly in one hand in order to check her lower belly fat, her navel is seen from close up. In the web series Hello web series Season 1, in an episode, Raima is seen to be lying on her bed removing the pallu of her saree, and her husband is seen to be playing with her tummy, Raima then points to her navel and says that she wants a tattoo below it but her husband objects it.
Actress Subhashree Ganguly has exposed her navel many times during the last eight years. She has bared her navel in the movies like Boss Bengali film , Romeo film , Bachchan film , and especially in the movie Prem Ki Bujhini where the hero often got distracted due to heroine's unintentional navel show. Subhashree is especially known for showing her navel in ultra-low waist dresses where a larger portion of her lower belly is also shown, but after her marriage, she has decreased her expose.
Now rarely she exposes her navel. Actress Nusrat Jahan is quite regular with her navel show, from the onset of her career, even after her marriage she equally continues to show her navel.
In the movie Khiladi film the actress teases the hero by intentionally dropping her pallu and showing her navel. Another renowned actress Mimi Chakraborty has also started exposing her bellybutton in the last years. Previously she did not show her navel and always kept it covered. But from the movie Total Dadagiri she started navel showing as she wore belly showing dresses in the songs of the movie. After some time she made a feather tattoo on her lower belly, after this incident she started full fledged navel showing in her movies and photoshoots mostly to show her tattoo.
Her navel can be spotted in most of her recent photographs Bengali Actress Srabanti Chatterjee is totally different, she has kept her navel hidden till date. Only in one of the songs of the movie Bagh Bandi Khela her pallu flies off and her navel is exposed for a couple of seconds, that's her first and last navel show to date.
Madhumita has started full fledged navel showing in recent times as almost all of her recent posts in social media clearly show her navel.. Actress Ritabhari Chakraborty is also known for exposing her navel in her toned abs and mostly ultra-low waist dresses.. Actresses like Bibriti Chatterjee and Rii Sen are known for baring their navel piercings in their pics.
The Censor Board of India for Indian cinema has created some limitations on "vulgar" visuals, such as restricting zoom shots of the navel, kissing the navel, and squeezing the navel and waist. It had been implemented during the s. Many films have faced censor cuts for navel scenes. Many actors have expressed mixed views on the display of and emphasis of the navel. Some feel displaying the midriff or navel cannot be considered exposing when compared to Hollywood films.
Actress Shilpa Shetty argued, "If navel-showing is obscenity, then our traditional Indian outfit—the traditional sari—should be banned in the first place. They can wear skirts but not too much below the navel. They sometimes object to showing the navel of a woman when, in other films, it is allowed. We cannot even question them. The censors should give us general rules in writing as to what is allowed and what is not, instead of taking decisions according to their whims and fancies. Madhavan commented, "I have often been embarrassed to see certain films I have done.
I think sensuality can be expressed in other ways. Japan has long had a special regard for the navel. The navel was exaggerated in size, informed by the belief that the navel symbolizes the center of where life begins.
On many middle Jomon figurines, the significance of the navel was emphasized with an indentation or hole. Sometimes, the importance of the navel was further enhanced by connecting with a line from the navel towards the chest. Early Japanese poems feature many references to the female navel. In some, the word navel actually refers to an indentation or hole instead of the belly button. The shape of the umbilicus of a newborn baby would be discussed at length. If a baby's navel points downward, the parents would brace themselves for a weakling child who will bring them woe.
The thunder god Raijin, with his terrifying drums, great horns, and long tusks, was said to have an insatiable appetite for young navels, and mothers had to nag their youngsters constantly to keep themselves well covered up.
Due to the mythology, navel exposure was not encouraged in the earlier times. The traditional clothing of Japanese women has a wide cloth belt around the midriff to protect the belly and keep it warm. The Japanese believe the belly is the source of person's warmth and that the perfect navel is an innie.
Although navel exposure has become a recent trend in fashion in Japan, annual Heso Matsuri "belly button festivals" have been held in Japan since the late s. The tradition of the Hokkaido Heso Odori "belly button dance" began in Dancers make their heso "belly button" into a face, using paint, special costumes, and props. Many variations of the dance have been developed, leading to competitions among dancers, who compete for prizes in various categories.
A similar type festival is held at Shibukawa, north of Tokyo. The idea was formed based on the location of Shibukawa, which is also referred to as the "Belly Button of Japan". The festival is based on a traditional Japanese form of entertainment where revelers paint a face on their torsos and stomachs to appear as a head. A kimono is wrapped around the waist, and the person's real head is hidden by a large cloth hat.
The belly button is traditionally painted into a mouth. In recent years, modern motifs and Japanese anime designs have appeared in the festival. Sigiriya frescoes depict royal ladies wearing cloth draped as a dhoti , tied in a knot at the front and pulled down to expose the navel. They wear pleated robes from the waist upwards, as well a necklace, armlets, wristlets, ear and hair ornaments, and display their breasts. The ladies in waiting wear waist clothes, a few ornaments and a firm thanapatiya "breast bandage".
In the Sinhalese poetic work Kaviyasekara, a father advises his married daughter as to proper clothing, "Dress your garment above your navel, without exposing the fair bosom, and expose not your teeth in laughing. In his work Daily Code for the Laity , the Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala wrote that a sari blouse must be long, fully covering a woman's breasts, midriff, navel, and back. In the s and s, a visible navel was very rare. By the late s, the Bollywood connection and the media and technological changes that occurred in India had influenced Sri Lanka's fashion outlook, with the navel becoming a focus in the modern Sri Lankan wardrobe.
Sri Lankan films commonly depict the women of the country's earliest history as scantily clad with exposed navels, and the country has become more open to the topic in general. In Nov , Western Province Chief Minister Isura Devapriya stated that a school dress code for students and teachers would be issued requiring that the navel be covered. It is an anachronistic proposal.
We see nothing wrong with teachers wearing sarees below the belly button. It may be that there is something wrong with Mr. We like to ask the Chief Minister whether the belly button is the main concern facing the education sector in the Western Province".
In , the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spoke out against exposed navels, saying, "Indonesian women, who are known for their courtesy, should refrain from exposing their midriffs or belly buttons, which now seems to be taken for granted. There are many ways to express beauty, as part of aesthetics, and to express freedom but not by showing things that lead to pornography. A week later, a cabinet minister quoted Yudhoyono as saying that he felt "disturbed and uneasy" to see television shows in which women exposed their navels.
The exhibit was surrounded by massive panels with multiple pictures of a near-naked man and woman frolicking in a park. Within days of the exhibition's launch, Islamic fundamentalists had descended on the biennale, forcing its closure and demanding prosecutions.
At first police claimed his work blasphemed the story of Adam and Eve; a few weeks later they told Suwage he faced five years in jail for producing pornography. The Indonesian parliament decided to introduce a sweeping anti-pornography law. The law imposes a rigid social template; couples who kiss in public will face up to five years' jail, as would anyone flaunting a "sensual body part"—including their navel—and tight clothing will be outlawed.
Due to this new anti-pornography law, topless bathing and surfing on the beaches of Bali, a common practice among tourists, would also be prohibited.
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