The quote from one of Hinduism's most sacred scriptures is repeated throughout the film. 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,' the scientist reads from the text as the pair resume sex.
In 'Oppenheimer,' Tatlock pauses in the midst of intercourse and asks Oppenheimer to read the Bhagavad Gita. India’s Information Commissioner and Save Culture Save India Foundation founder Uday Mahurkar called the sex scene between Murphy, who plays the titular character, and Pugh, who plays his lover Jean Tatlock, a “ scathing attack on Hinduism,' on social media Saturday. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist whose stewardship of the Manhattan Project led to the atomic bomb, the death of tens of thousands and the end of World War II. The Christopher Nolan film details the life of J. Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh's sex scene in ' Oppenheimer' has sparked backlash in India over the use of a sacred text.
