Sex Scene with Bhagavad Gita in “Oppenheimer” Sparks Controversy

A sex scene in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” featuring “Bhagavad Gita” has led to controversy and protests. This movie is drawing crowds in India and is doing better business than “Barbie”.

As per reports, in a sex scene in the “Oppenheimer” featuring Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimer and Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, Pugh stops during lovemaking, gets up and picks up a copy of the “Bhagavad Gita” from the shelf. She asks Murphy to read a stanza from it. Murphy reads the line “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.”

This line from the Gita is said to be uttered by Oppenheimer, when the first nuclear bomb was detonated.

Protests against this scene have started on social media.

Uday Mahurkar, the founder of the Save Culture Save India Foundation in a letter to Nolan on Twitter,terms it to be part of a larger conspiracy by anti-Hindu forces.

He demanded removal of this scene.