Netizens were found irked by a scene in Christopher Nolans latest released movie Oppenheimer where actor Cillian Murphy, who is portraying the character of physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in the movie, could be seen reading the Bhagavad Gita while having sex.
Several netizens to the scene and even criticised the Indian Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC) for allowing the retention of it in the movie.
Shame on Indias censor board for allowing this. Christopher Nolan is a typical Hollywood racist. He completely shut out all the Indian fighters in WWI movie and now he is making crude sexual references with Hinduism. Porno perverts from the West again exploit Hindu texts. https://t.co/qhiifzipNQ
Indian-Americans (@HinduAmericans) July 20, 2023
A Twitter handle named Indian-Americans posted: Absolutely disgusting. We are calling upon Hindus to boycott and protest this film! It has a scene associating the Gita with sex scene. Indias censor allowed it! They need to reverse this. They would never allow Quran or China to be shown like this.
#Oppenheimer movie, hero reading Sanskrit Bhagavad gita while sex scene, its completely defame Indian culture religion, this scene need to be removed or BAN this movie in India @itskJayaprakash @KirenRijiju @NTR_NationFirst @HLKodo @sriramchennai07 @Maathevan @Maha_Periyavaa
Shan ?? (@kevincsk28) July 22, 2023
Another Twitter user Shan said: #Oppenheimer movie, hero reading Sanskrit Bhagavad gita while sex scene, its completely defame Indian culture religion, this scene need to be removed or BAN this movie in India @narendramodi@AmitShah @ARanganathan72 @jsaideepak @rishibagree @BeerBicepsGuy@vivekagnihotri.
You are having a sex scene and at same time reading the #BhagavadGita
What crap is this @Chris_Nolann?
You have clearly manipulated the scripted history.
I left the movie instantly after that scene. Shame#Oppenheimer pic.twitter.com/IsEXbCIK03
Mayur (@peafowlms) July 21, 2023
Mayur, another netizen, said: You are having a sex scene and at same time reading the #BhagavadGita What crap is this @Chris_Nolann ? You have clearly manipulated the scripted history.I left the movie instantly after that scene. Shame.
Oppenheimer released on Friday.
The movie is directed by Christopher Nolan.
Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was pivotal in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project, and thereby ushering in the Atomic Age.
Cillian Murphy stars as the titular character, with Emily Blunt as Oppenheimers wife, Katherine Kitty Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves, Oppenheimers military handler, and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a senior member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Other members of the supporting cast include Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.
