"My family was saved by Hindus during 1984 anti-Sikh riots": Taapsee Pannu
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In an exclusive interview with news outlet, actress Taapsee Pannu has recalled how her family was saved by Hindus during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the national capital. She said that despite what happened at the time, Taapsee never grew up thinking that her family had experienced something bad.
During an interview with The Lallantop, Taapsee recalled her father's memories of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Taapsee revealed that her parents weren’t married then. Her mother was a resident of East Delhi while her father lived in Shakti Nagar.
She said that everything she knows about that time is what she's heard from her parents.
"My mother tells us that her side of town was safe. But in Shakti Nagar, we were the only Sikh family. We used to have a Jonga parked outside our house, and at that time, not many people had cars," Taapsee said.
Further, she mentioned that it was the Jonga car which almost got her family in trouble when the rioters arrived.
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"People came with swords, and petrol bombs. They knew that we were the only Sikh family in the neighbourhood. Our family turned off all the lights and hid, there was no point running, because they knew that they were coming towards them," she was quoted as saying by the media outlet.
She revealed that the house where they used to stay at, four other families too lived there on rent. They were the only sikhs while others were all Hindus, who protected them from the rioters.
"They’d come till our door, because they’d spotted the car and they knew it belonged to us. But our neighbours told them that we’d left town. They burned the car down. But we survived, because the neighbours protected us," the actress further said.