Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh’s sex scene in Oppenheimer has caused outrage throughout India over the use of the sacred Bhagavad Gita.
The film, directed by Christopher Nolan, details the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, an avid follower of Hindu philosophy and American physicist whose stewardship of the Manhattan Project led to the creation of the atomic bomb, the death of tens of thousands and the end of World War II.
India’s Information Commissioner and Save Culture Save India Foundation founder Uday Mahurkar labelled the sex scene between Murphy, who plays the titular character, and Pugh, who plays his lover Jean Tatlock, a “scathing attack on Hinduism.”
In the film, Tatlock pauses in the midst of doing the deed and asks Oppenheimer to read the Bhagavad Gita — a sacred Hindu text.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,” the scientist reads before the pair continue to get on with it.
Mahurkar said in a statement that the Bhagwad Geeta is one of the most revered scriptures of Hinduism.
“Geeta has been the inspiration for countless sanyasis, brahmacharis and legends who live a life of self-control and perform selfless, noble deeds,” he said.
“We do not know the motivation and logic behind this unnecessary scene on the life of a scientist.
“But this is a direct assault on the religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus.”
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In a 1965 NBC News documentary, Oppenheimer reveals that the line was at the forefront of his mind after the Manhattan Project.
“We knew the world would not be the same,” he said.
“A few people laughed; a few people cried. Most people were silent.
“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multiarmed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
Mahurkar also called for Nolan to remove the scene from the movie, which topped box office charts and ranked as Nolan’s third biggest opening in Australia, behind The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
“We urge, on behalf of billion Hindus and the timeless tradition of lives being transformed by revered Geeta, to do all that is needed to uphold the dignity of their revered book and remove this scene from your film across the world,” he said.
“Should you choose to ignore this appeal, it would be deemed as a deliberate assault on Indian civilisation.”
Murphy told Indian film critic Sucharita Tyagi ahead of the premiere that he read the Bhagavad Gita in preparation for filming.
“I thought it was an absolutely beautiful text, very inspiring,” he said. “I think it was a consolation to (Oppenheimer), he kind of needed it, and it provided him a lot of consolation all his life.”
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2023-07-25 03:55:00Z
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