MUMBAI – Bollywood’s budding starlet, Taapsee Pannu first made her mark inAmitabh Bachchan starrer social drama, *Pink*. The actor is now gearing upfor her recent venture, *Mulk*, which stars Rishi Kapoor as protagonist.
Pannu plays the role of a lawyer determined to clear her client’s name fromtreason allegation because she believes he’s being targeted because of hisreligion.
At the trailer launch event of the film, Pannu said she finds it‘disturbing that a particular religion is targeted like that.’ Sheexplained how her life is also affected by this, reported *The IndianExpresslink>*.
When asked about the community being targeted, the *Soorma* actor toldreporters, “It’s very disturbing. I’ll give you an example from my ownlife. My manager is a Muslim, my driver, my house help are Muslims.”
“If I were to feel disturbed in their presence then I would be disturbedwhole day and night because my life is run by them. It’s very disturbing torealise that a particular religion is being targeted,” she added.
“These people are inseparable to me. So this was a big reason for me to dothe film. I thought if someone has to stand up then I would like to takethat responsibility. This fear and this disturbance in my mind, I vented itall out through this film.”
She also said that the message the makers are trying to put across is ofreligious discrimination.
“This is not the government’s matter to address, it is ours. That’s what weare trying to express in the film and whatever dialogues I have said in thefilm I have done it with all my heart. So, I hope when the film releases onAugust 3, and the audience watches the film, they will be able tounderstand how we all feel about this issue,” she went on to comment.