Amidst global critical and commercial success, “Oppenheimer” and its director Christopher Nolan are being criticized in India over the use of the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita during a sex scene between J. Robert Oppenheimer and his one-time romantic partner Jean Tatlock.
In the scene, while taking a momentary break from sex, Tatlock (played by Florence Pugh) takes a look at the bookshelf in Oppenheimer’s bedroom and notes how the physicist (Cillian Murphy) knows many different languages. She pulls a copy of the Bhagavad Gita written in Sanskrit from the shelf and asks Oppenheimer to read it as they resume sex.