Locket Chatterjee and Dona in Cha-E-Chuti

Tollywood has done it — a full-on lesbian kiss, no less.

The lips in question? Locket Chatterjee and newcomer Dona.

The film in question? First-time director Aniket Chattopadhyay’s Cha-E-Chuti.

Locket insists she was completely at ease while kissing her screen girlfriend, Dona.

“When I was doing the smooch scene it didn’t strike me as something very different. It didn’t have any impact on me. For me it was just another kiss with a colleague. I didn’t pay much heed to the gender of my kissing partner! My performance in front of the camera was more important to me.”

The last time Tollywood had managed to raise such a storm — or rather stoke such a Fire — was with Subrata Sen’s Nil Nirjane where Raima had got briefly intimate with Mou.

Locket was never in two minds about playing a lesbian or doing the liplock with a difference.

“It’s a very challenging role. Now I want to explore different kinds of characters. Otherwise I couldn’t have dealt with the nuances that my character in Cha-E-Chuti has. It has been a learning process and I think the audience is now ready to see us in unusual roles,” says Locket, whose careergraph is surely looking up.

While she plays Koel Mullick’s elder sister in Saat Pake Bandha, Ravi Kinnagi’s Paran Jaaye Joliya Re starring Dev-Subhashree will see her as a barir bou.

But Cha-E-Chuti is the one to watch out for.