Actor Varun Dhawan addressed the backlash his recent film ‘Bawaal’ has been facing over the use of Holocaust references as a plot device.
Talking about the Auschwitz controversy in the film, Varun took an indirect dig at the Bhagavad Gita scene in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’.
Varun told Pinkvilla, ‘Some people got trigged or sensitive about this. But I don’t understand where does that sensitivity or trigger go when they watch, suppose an English film, I’m saying for example. They’re allowed to do everything there, they’re allowed to take leaps and they’re allowed to show things in a certain way, but you’ll find that correct.’
Without directly mentioning ‘Oppenheimer’, Varun said, ‘I know people have got very triggered after watching a small scene in a brilliant film, recently released. It’s a scene that’s important to our culture and our country. But that’s okay for you. You don’t feel they should be more sensitive to you? So where does your criticism go then?’
For those who haven’t watched the film yet, the titular character in ‘Oppenheimer’ appears to have sex as he reads out verses from an ancient Sanskrit scripture.
This irked a section of social media users and they demanded the removal of the sequence from Cillian Murphy starrer.
‘Oppenheimer’ is a biographical drama on American theoretical physicist.
The movie released in India on July 21 and opened to positive reviews.
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