I&B Minister Anurag Thakur Requests an Explanation from the CBFC Regarding the ‘Oppenheimer’ Bhagavad Gita Row

Before its debut, the movie Oppenheimer with Cillian Murphy generated a lot of anticipation. The film directed by Christopher Nolan and released on July 21 is quite popular. The movie had a successful opening weekend in India. However, several Indian cinema reviewers and viewers found offense in one specific moment of the film. They were enraged over a private scenario in which Oppenheimer was reading a passage from the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita. They lamented Nolan’s offense to religious emotions and voiced their dismay.

Anurag Thakur, the minister of information and broadcasting, is reportedly asking the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to explain why it approved the film with the contentious sequence.

According to reports, Thakur instructed the CBFC authorities to pressure the producers to cut the problematic part while action may be taken against the people who approved the film.

Regarding the contentious scene, Florence Pugh, who portrayed psychologist Jean Tatler, asks Cillian Murphy, who played J. Robert Oppenheimer, to read a passage from what looks to be a Sanskrit book that was allegedly used in the scenario. Bodhgaya Gita. The words “Now, I am become Death, destroyer of the world” were read aloud.

After the biographical thriller’s publication in India, novelist and information commissioner Uday Mahurkar brought up the subject of Christopher Nolan in an open letter. “We do not know the motivation and logic behind this unnecessary scene on the life of a scientist,” he said in a tweet. But this amounts to waging war on the Hindu community and probably certainly forms part of a bigger plot by anti-Hindu elements. It directly challenges the religious convictions of a billion tolerant Hindus.

At the Indian box office, “Oppenheimer” has joined the Rs 50 crore club.