Oppenheimer’s Bhagavad Gita controversy: Mahabharata’s Nitish Bharadwaj DEFENDS Christopher Nolan’s film
Oppenheimer, which was released along with ‘Barbie’, has stirred up controversy over a specific scene, and garnered great interest for all the wrong reasons. The scene in the question entails the lead character, Oppenheimer, portrayed by Cillian Murphy, uttering a line from the Bhagavad Gita at the moment of an intimate scene with Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh.
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Now, Nitish Bhardwaj, who is known for playing Lord Krishna in Mahabharata, in a verbal exchange with ETimes reacted to it and stated, “Gita basically teaches a sense of duty in the middle of a battlefield. Metaphorically, our existence struggles, particularly emotional, are the battlefields.”
The shloka advised Arjun to render his responsibility as a warrior, that is to fight the evil. Krishna’s complete shloka needs to be understood well. He says that “I‘m the eternal time who will kill the whole lot; so every person will die even if you don’t kill them. So do your duty.”
He said, when Oppenheimer created the atom bomb to kill Japan’s population, he turned into himself wondering whether he did his duty well! His well-known interview showed him in tears, possibly because he had regretted his own invention. He in all likelihood saw that his invention will smash the human race in future & he was remorseful.
The use of this verse inside the film has to be understood from Oppenheimer’s emotional angle of thoughts.
Further Nitish said that he invites people to consider this emotional thing of Oppenheimer’s crucial moments of life. And said that Isn’t it proved correctly that now we can see all the technology killing our own race – for human greed of territorial & commercial superiority, without any feeling of larger duty as a man or woman or a nation or a planet.
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