Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur has sought an explanation from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) over an “objectionable” scene in the film Oppenheimer that was released in India last Thursday.
The intimate scene was censored by the film’s India distributor to blur the cover page of the Bhagavad Gita, and shots featuring nudity were blurred or zoomed in. The pre-emptive censorship notwithstanding, the intimate scene features J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the invention of the atom bomb, reading aloud from the book in bed.
