During intercourse, the character Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh) stops and asks Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) to read from the Bhagavad Gita, one of the sacred scriptures of Hinduism.
“Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds,” he says.
Then the intercourse continues.
A politician from the conservative Hindu nationalist Indian People’s Party calls the scene a “disturbing attack on Hinduism” and accuses the film of being “part of a larger conspiracy by anti-Hindu forces”.
Earlier, Indian government information officer Uday Mahurkar called the film “a direct attack on the religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus”, and likened it to “waging a war against the Hindu community”.
The Indian minister Anurag Thakur has also expressed his criticism of the sex scene. More supporters of right-wing groups in India are calling for a boycott of the film.