In 2016, actress Pragya Jaiswal had requested Raghavendra Rao to have a shot with fruits and flowers on her navel as part of a song sequence. 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"

http://www.gulte.com/movienews/55944/Heroine-To-Director-Hit-Me-On-My-Navelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcbzfg7g2wQA song sequence in the 2012 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."

The 1981 film Ek Duuje Ke Liye, a remake of the 1978 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"

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Rati-Agnihotri-I-was-a-rare-North-Indian-girl-doing-well-down-South/articleshow/48155856.cmsBollywood yesteryear actress Rati Agnihotri has mentioned in a couple of interviews that the "top spinning on the navel" scene from her 1981 Hindi film Ek Duuje Ke Liye was one of her most memorable filming moments. In an interview she stated, "I remember hot rocks, my concave belly and that shot of Kamal spinning the top on my belly. It was so ticklish that I would squeal and squirm, and nearly ruin the shot!".

http://cineplot.com/rati-agnihotri-interview/Recently, Rakhi Sawant appeared in an item song "Latto Ghuma Re Chora" for the 2012 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhqF4SbQ5kQhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/mumbai/Rakhtbeej-starcast-in-Delhi-along-with-Rakhi-Sawant/articleshow/13483052.cms