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Cultural views on the navel 2002 film "Pammal K. Sambandam". In his review of "Isai" (2015), film critic Baradwaj Rangan stated that "Sulagna brings to mind the heroines of a certain era who were chosen not because they had beautiful eyes or a bewitching smile but because of the quiver-quotient of their navel when confronted by a close-up." Film critic Sudhir Srinivasan wrote in a review for the 2016 film "Aranmanai 2", "The emphasis is not so much on making a horror story that is novel, than it is on fixating on the heroine’s navel." Of the South Indian film industries, Telugu cinema more frequently