While Oppenheimer brought big smiles at the box office with the Christopher Nolan directorial raking in millions of dollars all around the world, a section of people in India have objected to Cillian Murphy's intimate scene with Florence Pough holding the Hindu sacred book Bhagavad Gita in hand. For those who have already watched the movie in theaters, Oppenheimer depicted Cillian Murphy who plays the character of Robert Oppenheimer getting intimate with actress Florence Pough with the actor reading the Bhagavad Gita during the act. Many people in India have raised their objection over Cillian Murphy-Florence Pough's intimate due to the presence of Bhagavad Gita and asking the CBFC how they gave the movie a green signal without removing the scene. Florence Pough-Cillian Murphy's intimate scene has created an outrage so much that Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, criticized the film certification agency CBFC. While there is turmoil over the particular scene in India, Cillian Murphy recently praised Florence Pough and hailed the objectionable scene calling it 'perfect & powerful'.
In an interview with an Australian daily, Murphy explained the sexual scenes were included by director Christopher Nolan with purpose, and not for any "gratuitous" reason. "He knew that those scenes would get the movie the rating that it got. And I think when you see it, it's so f--king powerful. And they're not gratuitous. They're perfect. And Florence is just amazing," Murphy said. The Peaky Blinders star further said, "I have loved Florence's work since ‘Lady Macbeth,’ and I think she's f--king phenomenal..She has this presence as a person and on screen that is staggering. The impact she has [in 'Oppenheimer'] for the size of the role, it's quite devastating."
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For the unaware, Oppenheimer is a true story based on the biopic of 'Father of Atomic Bomb' J. Robert Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy is portraying the character of J Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer will also be featuring Robert Downey Jr. as Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, Matt Damon as the Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves Jr., Emily Blunt as wife Katherine Oppenheimer, Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock who harbored a relationship with Oppenheimer.
As per reports, J. Robert Oppenheimer was widely influenced by the Hindu sacred book Bhagavad Gita. Multiple reports suggest that Oppenheimer had memorized and deeply understood the core value of the Bhagavad Gita. Moreover, he used to keep a copy of the Hindu Sacred book by his work desk. Furthermore, it is also said that Oppenheimer used to gift the English-translated version of the Bhagavad Gita to his colleagues and friends. Oppenheimer was so influenced by the Hindu Sacred book Bhagavad Gita that he learned Sanskrit in 1933 and first read the Gita in the original language. In fact, after the successful test of the Atomic bomb in the Trinity Test in Mexico, Oppenheimer used a quote from the Bhagavad Gita. He used Lord Krishna's quote when he told Arjuna in the Gita, "Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds".
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