Ram Gopal Varma takes a dig at Indians after watching Oppenheimer: ‘I doubt even 0.0000001 % have read Bhagavad Gita’

Irony is that an American nuclear scientist Oppenheimer read the BhagwadGeeta which I doubt even 0.0000001 % of Indians read

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 24, 2023

While people agreed with the Company director that many haven’t read Bhagavad Gita to be proud of the representation in the film, a section also argued against RGV. “Truth be told, he makes a valid point,” wrote one user. “Let’s say the population of India is 150 crores. 0.0000001% of 150 crores is 1.5 members. Definitely, two members have read,” wrote another.

Meanwhile, a scene in the film has also led to a debate as Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) is seen reading the Hindu text while having sex. The same quote, ‘Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds’, is again repeated just before the shockwaves of the Trinity test hits the observers in the camps breaking the defeating silence that preceded.

Yet, the film has become a successful venture in India with tickets getting sold out days before the shows. Based on the autobiography, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film is about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is regarded as the father of the atomic bomb.