Seven and counting

Locket Chatterjee has little time for television these days, having signed no less than seven films. But it wasn’t film work that kept the lissome actress away from the studios for so long.

“My father passed away. Also, I had my jatra assignments till January. So I couldn’t take up any film. Besides, I wasn’t too happy with the kind of roles I was getting. And now with so many films, I hardly have time for myself. So I decided to stop working in the Zee Bangla mega serial Krishnakali... Besides, I will sign a few more films soon,” says Locket, on the sets of Raj Mukherjee’s untitled film co-starring Tapas Pal, Swastika Mukherjee and Rachana Banerjee. She plays a rich girl who later marries Tapas.

But the wait-and-watch seems to have paid off. The seven films are as different as they can get, says Locket. “I am very excited and no, I am not playing anyone’s sister in these films, except one.”

That’s in Swapan Saha’s untitled film where she plays sister to Prosenjit. But Locket doesn’t mind it as long as the sister has something to do. “I have played a sister in many films but they were all different from each other. I have a very meaty role in this film,” she claims.

In Ravi Kinnagi’s Bhalobasha Bhalobasha with Hiran and Srabanti, Locket plays Sabyasachi Chakraborty’s wife; she is opposite TV actor Rrishii Kaushik in Jayanta Basu’s Chokher Alo that also stars Rituparna Sengupta.

“I am looking forward to my role of an actress in debutant director Nilanjan’s Tomar Jonyo, along with two newcomers, and Gaurav Pande’s Shukno Lanka, which has Mithun Chakraborty, Roopa Ganguly and Sabyasachi Chakraborty . In Aniket Roy’s film, I play myself ! The film is a thriller with several other Tolly wood people playing themselves,” rattles off Locket.


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