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Shall I pose with a cigarette?“ she asks, teasing the camera with a smile. It's shocking, as Arpita is not known to be a smoker. “No, no, I'm actually doing a Bengali film, where I'm expected to smoke a lot,“ she quickly clarifies. Ask her about husband Prosenjit Chatterjee's smoking habits and she says, “No way! Bumbada quit smoking four years back.“ That might be seen as just a concerned wife speaking, but in real life, Arpita is very much a fun-loving girl in her 30s. As we meet her for a morning chat, she opens up on films, love, life, and the tag of Tollywood's first lady , which she never was! Excerpts: