
The wait is finally over as eccentric filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s latest film, “Oppenheimer,” debuts on theatre screens throughout the globe. It examines J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life and morally problematic contributions, a physicist who is credited with creating the atomic bomb.
Oppenheimer was one of the primary contributors to the Manhattan Project, a government research initiative that operated from 1942 to 1946 and was focused on producing nuclear weapons. He served as the director of Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bombs were actually assembled.
Cillian Murphy plays Oppenheimer, taking on the lead role in a Christopher Nolan movie for the first time, and Florence Pugh portrays Jean Tatlock, his former fiancée. Prior to the movie’s debut, Murphy stated that it “features prolonged nudity as well as sex.” However, it was noticed that the sequence features a blurred area on Pugh’s naked back when moviegoers in India flocked to theatres to see the movie.
According to accounts, the blurring was not required by the Censor Board Of Film Certification; rather, the producers took care of it. In addition, the CBFC requested that the term “as****e” be muted. But a scene when Pugh forces Murphy to read from the Bhagavad Gita while engaging in sexual activity has been kept.
A number of online users have made the same observation and questioned the CBFC for approving the distribution of this movie without removing a sequence that would offend religious sensibilities.
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— $@M (@SAMTHEBESTEST_) July 21, 2023
bhai bhagwad gita wala se* scene pe controversy hosakti? i wonder who cbfc allowed
— Prajval jain (@Prajvaljain3) July 21, 2023
The sex scene with the Bhagawad Gita verse in Oppenheimer gave me such goosebumps.
Just thinking about the outrage that's about to come this week filled me with glee.
In all honesty, I thought it was a brilliant and appropriate use of the verse.
— amogh (@msamogh) July 21, 2023
They put a big black box on Florence Pugh's body covering half the screen during the sex scenes in Oppenheimer for anyone wondering.
Also Cillian Murphy recites the Gita in sort of mid-interrupted-sex how did they let that stay 💀
— Advit 🇳🇴 (@rebelmoonzs) July 21, 2023
Shame on India’s censor board for allowing this. Christopher Nolan is a typical Hollywood racist. He completely shut out all the Indian fighters in WWI movie and now he is making crude sexual references with Hinduism. Porno perverts from the West again exploit Hindu texts. https://t.co/qhiifzipNQ
— Indian-Americans (@HinduAmericans) July 20, 2023
The studios are now assuming CBFC’s stance and self-censoring, even though in Oppenheimer CBFC didn’t ask for a controversial scene involving the Gita to be cut. They should have taken a chance.
(Context: the blurred sex scene in Oppenheimer) pic.twitter.com/9QuiQXDApG— Abhijeet Mukherjee (@abhijeetmk) July 21, 2023