Indian journalist Uday Mahurkar slammed director Christopher Nolan’s use of the Bhagavad Gita scripture in the scene.
Indian officials have denounced Christopher Nolan’s latest film “Oppenheimer” as a “scathing attack on Hinduism” for a sex scene between Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh., journalist and government-appointed information commissioner Uday Mahurkar slammed Nolan and the scene for its use of the Bhagavad Gita, which he called “one of the most revered scriptures of Hinduism.”
“We do not know the motivation and logic behind this unnecessary scene on life of a scientist,” wrote Mahurkar, who also founded the Save Culture Save India Foundation. “But this is a direct assault on religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus, rather it amounts to waging a war on the Hindu community and almost appears to be part of a larger conspiracy by anti-Hindu forces.”
Indian officials have demanded “Oppenheimer” director, Christopher Nolan, remove a controversial sex scene between Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh.The scene in question is being slammed for including the Bhagavad Gita.The Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse scripture that dates back thousands of years and is considered a sacred text in Hinduism.
During the sex scene in question, Pugh’s character, Jean Tatlock, stops intercourse to pull the Bhagavad Gita from a bookshelf before instructing Murphy’s character, J. Robert Oppenheimer, to read from the literature.Indian journalist Uday Mahurkar called the sex scene “unnecessary.”Mahurkar’s letter went on to claim that Hollywood has been reluctant to include Islamic scripture and the Quran in films so as not to “offend the value system of a common Muslim.
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