The Hollywood blockbuster tells the story of American scientist J Robert Oppenheimer and his position within the growth of the atomic bomb throughout the Second World Warfare.
In a single scene, actor Cillian Murphy, who performs Oppenheimer, recites a well-known line from the Bhagavad Gita after having intercourse with Florence Pugh’s Jean Tatlock.
“Now I’m turn out to be demise, destroyer of worlds,” he reads out, a phrase the physicist reportedly recalled when the primary atomic bomb he invented was detonated on July 16, 1945 .
Nevertheless, the scene has sparked outrage from officers within the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Occasion.
Uday Mahurkar, a senior official on the authorities’s Central Data Fee, referred to as it “a direct assault on non secular beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus”.
In an open letter to Nolan, he wrote: “It has come to our discover that the film Oppenheimer accommodates a scene [which makes] a scathing assault on Hinduism.
“As per social media reviews, a scene within the film reveals a lady making a person learn Bhagwad Geeta aloud whereas getting over him and doing sexual activity.
“She is holding Bhagwad Geeta in a single hand, and the opposite hand appears to be adjusting the place of their reproductive organs.
“We have no idea the motivation and logic behind this pointless scene [in the life] of a scientist.
“However it is a direct assault on non secular beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus, relatively it quantities to waging a warfare on the Hindu group and nearly seems to be half of a bigger conspiracy by anti-Hindu forces.”
Hashtags equivalent to #BoycottOppenheimer and #RespectHinduCulture have been trending on Twitter.
“This needs to be investigated… on an pressing foundation and people concerned needs to be severely punished,” the nationalist Save Tradition Save India Basis mentioned.
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