Read the full op-ed by Tunku Varadarajan at: ‘Oppenheimer,’ the Bhagavad-Gita and India’s Outrage Comments: The WSJ op-ed does not address what appears to be the specific complaint of Hindus about the specific scene in the film in which the Gita verse is shown while Oppenheimer is having sex. The Hindus who object to the scene have not articulated their specific complaint clearly either. It seems to me that the issue is not the depiction of Gita by itself or the sex scene, by itself, but the juxtaposition of the two without any apparent connection between the two, not even some oblique metaphorical or artistic connection. In real life, Oppenheimer reportedly recited or thought about the Gita verse at the time of the first atomic test, not during his sexual encounters.  The film director, for some reason, shows the Gita verse on TWO different occasions, first in the sex scene and the second time during the atomic test explosion. If there was some artistic explanation for the first scene, it has not been revealed or articulated by anyone as far as I know. Perhaps, the director wanted to show sex, an act of creation, as the antithesis of the destructive bomb? Again, I don’t think the artist has to explain anything to anyone.  I am just suggesting that the objecting Hindus may have been offended by this seemingly unexplained juxtaposition of the sex scene with Gita. The WSJ op-ed could have argued that nude and erotic sculptures are common in Hindu temples and that nudity and sex are not really as much of a taboo as some Hindus are making them out to be. There have been other similar controversies in the past.  For example, “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) by Stanley Kubrick had a Bhagavad Gita verse in Sanskrit and a Tamil song playing in the background during the sex orgy scene at the end of the film. Some Hindus objected to that scene also.  (That scene also included recitation of some Roman liturgy.)