‘Shame on India’s censor board,’ say netizens as Oppenheimer depicts Cillian Murphy reading Bhagavad Gita while having sex

The sex exchange between Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy is hazy.

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.

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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.