“Thank you so much for pulling me into this mess Sree. Now instead of just you, it looks like both of us are about to get fired.” Shalini said darkly as she walked towards Tanveer’s office along with Sreekanth and Xavier.
“I highly doubt he is going go that far….” Sreekanth started.
“Don’t worry guys.” Xavier said butting into their conversation. “I have a feeling that this is going to be a very different meeting than what you guys are expecting.” He says while throwing a meaningful look at Shalini. By then they reach outside Tanveer’s office so Shalini doesn’t get a chance to ask what he means by it.
“Come on in guys. ” Tanveer says with a warm smile as he ushers all of them into his office. Shalini exchanged a surprised look with Sreekanth wondering why Tanveer was looking all chirpy all of a sudden.
“Don’t look so tense guys. Don’t worry. You guys are not in trouble. I called you here to discuss something else.” Tanveer said jovially seeing their nervous faces.
Shalini and Sree breathe out sighs of relief hearing that and exchange a smile. “So what is it sir that you wanted to discuss with us?” Sreekanth asks now genuinely curious.
Tanveer takes a deep breath and starts “Shalini…this concerns you mostly. I have an offer for you.” A slow smile spreads across Xavier’s face hearing it. His hunches were right.
“Oh, an offer? For me Sir?” Shalini asks baffled at the direction this meeting was going.
“Yes, Shalini for you. I would like for you to star in our Omkari Gold and Diamonds Ad. Xavier and I have been looking for a suitable person to do this ad for ages now. But today while watching you doing the presentation, it just clicked on me that you were the one I have been looking for. You would be perfect!”
“What? Me?” Shalini squeaked in a high voice surprised beyond measure.
Suddenly it clicked on Shalu what this, was all about. The Ad! Of course. The one that even top models and actresses were declining to perform due to it containing scenes that laid extra emphasis on their navel. And on top of that Tanveer only wanted someone with a beautiful navel to perform it. Now it made sense why he concluded the meeting so abruptly the way he did earlier. It happened just a minute or so after she made her navel visible. She blushed beet red realizing where this conversation was headed towards.
“Yes, Shalini. You. And I will tell you why in a minute. Before that, there is something I want you to see. Xavier, can you play the ad concept presentation slides on the TV please.” he asks turning to Xavier.
Xavier nods and moves to the wall-mounted TV on the other side of the office and hooks in his pen drive. On Tanveer’s gesture, Shalini and Sreekanth stand up from their seats and joins Xavier in front of the TV. Tanveer also joins them and stands just behind Shalini admiring her curvaceous figure from behind. Like most men, Tanveer too feels the strange burning urge to just reach out and squeeze her love handles. Tanveer gulps and controls himself. The sheer feminine allure of this woman was something else. Just then the presentation starts playing on the TV.
Shalu fidgets a bit nervously feeling Tanveer’s presence just behind her. For some reason, her skin was breaking out in goosebumps at his proximity. She shakes her head and puts her attention on the TV. She needed to watch this closely and find out what this much-hyped ad idea was all about.
**Presentation starts**
The screen began to present a series of slides that graphically illustrated the scenes present in the ad. The first slide showed a cartoon illustration of a curvy woman sitting alone by a water fountain looking at a distance. Dressed in a dark green silk dhoti and matching blouse she looked like a woman from medieval times. However, she wasn’t wearing a single piece of jewelry on her body which struck as very odd to Shalu as this was supposed to be a jewelry ad. Suddenly her face brightens up as she sees something in the distance and slowly stands up and her belly becomes fully visible as she does so. Even in the cartoonish representation attention to detail has been given to the woman’s belly and navel which was looking very appealing.
The next scene showed someone coming from far away on a horseback. The man riding the horse looked like a prince of some sort wearing an expensive-looking dhoti and angavastram. However unlike the woman he was wearing expensive-looking ornaments all over his body. The woman jogs upto him with an expression of happiness as he stops his horse a few meters away from her and gets down. They look at each other with expressions of joy.
However, her face falls slightly as she sees him looking at her unornamented neck, ears and arms. She looks down sadly as though embarrassed for not having any ornaments on her. However, the prince smiles and makes a gesture that indicates he would take care of it. His hand immediately goes for the golden hilt of the sword that was hanging by his waist and pulls it out of its scabbard. He points the tip of the long gleaming curved sword at her face, and then slowly brings it down and touches its pointed tip just under her neck. As soon as the metal touches her skin, golden flowery sparks appear all around her neck and a necklace magically appears around her neck.
Her face morphs into an expression of wonder as she feels the weight of the necklace on her neck. She brings up her hands to feel its texture with her fingers. Not stopping there the prince moves the sword and taps both of her ears with its tip where golden dangling earrings appear with a flourish of golden sparkles. As she brings up her hands to feel those earrings on both of her ears the prince taps both her wrists with the sword and as she watches in delighted wonder her wrists get surrounded by golden sparkles and with it the appearance of a set of ornate golden bangles. She looks at him with a delighted expression. But he wasn’t done yet.
And next came the scene that really stunned Shalu. The prince brings his sword further down her torso and inserts the tip of the sword right into the depths of her deep navel with a naughty smile. Stunned and aroused by that intimate touch she throws her head back in an orgasmic gasp. And a thin golden waist chain magically appears around her waist in a burst of golden sparkles. He turns the hilt of the sword making the blade twist inside her navel driving her crazy. She turns her head sideways, her eyes shut tight with an expression that conveyed orgasmic pain and pleasure. And a tattoo of a sun magically appears around her navel in cue of that twist. Finally, he releases her navel from the captivity of that intruding sword and takes it off.
She slowly opens her eyes and looks at him with a shy expression and turns away covering her face with her hands in embarrassment while he laughs genially from behind. The focus goes to her belly and navel again. And the tattoo of sun around her navel shines brightly in gold color as everything else disappears from screen until only that sun remains indicating that was the official logo of Omkari Gold and Diamonds. Letters appear beneath it.( Pic below )
And then the presentation comes to end. Shalini just stands there still staring at the blank screen with slightly opened jaws. A thousand thoughts passed through her mind at the same time. She jumps as suddenly she feels a hand on her shoulders. She slowly turns around to face Tanveer.
“So as you can see Shalini, the idea behind this ad is to associate our logo which is an O decorated like a sun with a sensual part of the female body like the navel which has a similar shape. Something like that is a sure-fire way to imprint the brand of Omkari instantly on people’s minds.”
Even Shalu had to admit that it was indeed an ingenious idea. This ad when it is made and gets released will instantly go viral and the Omkari brand name with it. But it will bring instant fame and attention to whoever performs it too and not necessarily in a good way. The ramifications it could have on the life of the actress who does this could be huge. Even more so for someone like Shalu who was neither an actress nor a celebrity. It could greatly impact how people saw her in her real life.
But right now she had more pressing things in her mind as Tanveer who was now standing just in front of her brought up his hands towards her belly. Shalu’s breath hitched in his throat as she braced for his touch. But Tanveer momentarily stopped his hands inches away from her waist and asked in a low voice while looking intensely at Shalu’s face. “May I?” Shalu gulped and gave a curt nod strangely aroused by the situation. Tanveer smiles and slides the pallu of her saree sideways, dragging the tip of his fingers along her skin in the process and putting her tantalizing belly on full display.
‘So Shalini…” he continued in a low voice, his eyes going down to admire her midriff. “As you can see, the belly and navel of the female character has a lot of importance in this ad.” He slowly graze the back of his fingers across her belly delicately feeling her shuddering skin. “So it is very important that this ad is performed by a girl with good looking belly.” His fingers glide back to the center, and he slowly withdraw all except his index finger which begins to draw slow sensual circles around her alluring navel. “And you Shalu, has the most beautiful belly I have ever seen in my life.” Shalu breathes hard aroused to the core feeling Tanveer’s finger drawing a torturing slow circle around the very rim of her navel. “And the most gorgeously round and perfect navel…”
“UFFFFF……..” Shalu gasps as Tanveer slips his index finger deep inside her navel. Sreekanth and Xavier watch this sensual exchange with open jaws feeling both turned on to the core and extremely jealous. Shalu closed her eyes, her facial expressions contorting with the efforts she was putting on in keeping the orgasmic sensations spasming through her nerves at bay. Sensitive as she was at her at her navel, it was all she could do to stop herself from breaking apart then and there in throes of pleasure.
“The moment I saw your navel during that presentation…” Tanveer continued now slowly rolling his finger inside her navel making her squirm. “I knew you were the one.”
“Ahh….Sir…Please….” Shalu gasps out weakly. Tanveer smiles enjoying teasing her feminine dignity under his fingertips. He understood the sensations were getting too much for her to handle. So he slowly withdrew his fingers.
“So what do you think guys? Doesn’t she have the perfect belly?” Tanveer asks turning Shalu towards Sreekanth and Xavier who were just standing there with gobsmacked expressions struggling with their bulging erections. Shalu who has finally opened her eyes blushes furiously as Tanveer puts her belly on blatant display in front of two men and asks them to comment on it.
“Oh yes Sir.” Xavier says coming forward eager to join in. “She would be perfect for the ad. I can see the ad in my head right now. I mean..” To Shalini’s surprise Xavier too brings up his hands towards her belly. “Her belly is so perfect…Imagine it adorned with a waist chain…” he says drawing an imaginary line with his index finger from her left hip all the way across to her right”
Shalini giggles “Hey hey come on guys. That is enough teasing on my belly. I get the point.” she says politely pushing away Xavier’s hands. Already Tanveer has driven her crazy with his fingers. She barely survived that. The last thing she wanted was for this to turn into a 3 on 1 Shalu’s navel teasing contest. She immediately readjusted back her pallu to cover her belly properly much to the chagrin of Xavier and Sreekanth.
She turned to face Tanveer, feeling a strange shyness in facing him now after the way he just teased her navel. “I am flattered by the offer sir. I truly am. But I am afraid I must decline. I don’t want that kind of publicity on me.”
“Hold that thought Shalu. Let me tell you one more thing. On the course of seeking suitable people to perform this ad we reached out to many popular stars. Do you know who our top pick was for doing this ad? It was actress Malavika. And you know how much we were willing to pay her for performing this ad? 60 lakh rupees. And that was mainly due to her popularity and brand value. But unfortunately, she turned down the offer.“
Shalu started at him stunned. Malavika was a well-known south indian actress. She was especially popular among the young crowd for her alluring navel. Shalu could see why she was the top choice. She declined the offer even after being offered 60 lakhs?
“Only top actresses like Malavika were offered such a large sum in the range of 40-60 lakhs because of their popularity. What we offered the other lesser-known actresses and models was a significantly less amount. However, if you choose to do this Shalini, I am willing to give you the very same offer I gave Malavika. 60 LAKHS.”
Shalu was stunned. She had no words to say. 60 lakhs !! That was like 6-7 times the money she currently earned in a single year.
“And that is not all. Effective from the moment you sign the contract to do this ad your monthly salary as a fashion designer at Omakari Sarees will be hiked by 30% effective from the very next month of signing the contract. That is how much I want you to do this ad Shalini.” Tanveer said earnestly.
Shalini was reeling. A 30% hike? She will be fast-tracked on her career by a whopping 3 years if that happens. Tanveer has made an offer so huge that no person in their right mind would object. She was way too overwhelmed by everything she experienced and learned in the past one hour to make a rational decision now.
“What are you waiting for Shalini? This is huge. You will never get an offer like this in your life again. Just accept it.” Sreekanth said from beside her, his face dripping with excitement.
“This is a mind-blowingly generous offer, sir. Truly I am flattered and honored. But still I need to think about this. Is it ok if I let you know my answer in a few days?” Shalu asked tentatively turning to look at Tanveer.
“Of course Shalini. Of course. How about you take the rest of the week off and think it over carefully. Let me know your answer coming Monday. How does that sound?”
“That sounds perfect. Thank you sir.” said Shalini gratefully.
“Awesome. All right then. I guess I will see you on Monday, Shalini.” He says shaking her hands with a handsome grin.