People are boycotting ‘Oppenheimer’ after ‘disgusting’ line offends ‘one billion people’

Days after Christopher Nolan’s three-hour global box office success Oppenheimer was released, it received a wave of backlash from the Hindu-right in India. The reason for that is one particular sex scene during which the main character, played by Cillian Murphy, reads from the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text in Hinduism.
Bhagavad Gita was likely incorporated into the film because of real-life Oppenheimer’s fascination with the Hindu religion. He was so much into it, that he even translated the sacred text from Sanskrit into English.

Hindus from part of India are now left furious because Nolan chose to portray Oppenheimer’s love for the religion during an explicit scene.
Uday Mahurkar, journalist and the founder of Save Culture Save India (SCSI), penned an open letter to Christopher Nolan himself.

It has come to our notice that the movie Oppenheimer contains a scene which makes a scathing attack on Hinduism,” he wrote. “As per social media reports, a scene in the movie shows a woman making a man read Bhagwad Geeta aloud while getting over him and doing sexual intercourse. She is holding Bhagwad Geeta in one hand, and the other hand seems to be adjusting the position of their reproductive organs.”