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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

Oppenheimer’s use of sacred text in sex scene angers Hindu right wing in India

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy in a scene from
The sex scene in which Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, reads aloud the Bhagavad Gita has caused a row in India. Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/AP

Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer has prompted outrage among the Hindu right wing in India, who have alleged that a sex scene featuring a sacred text has offended religious sentiments.

The blockbuster tells the story of Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb and includes a sex scene in which the tortured physicist, played by Cillian Murphy, reads the Bhagavad Gita to his lover Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh.

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