Oppenheimer: Fans left shocked as Florence Pugh’s nude scene gets edited with CGI-made black dress in India

Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon & Florence Pugh, has had a record-breaking opening weekend with a box office collection of Rs. 60 crores (gross) across 1923 screens (including all IMAX screens). It is the highest opening weekend ever for a Christopher Nolan film and a non-franchise Hollywood film. It also is the highest opening weekend for a Hollywood movie on IMAX screens & the highest opening weekend (Friday to Sunday) for a Hollywood film in 2023. Internationally, India is the 3rd highest in the world following only the US & the UK markets. However, moviegoers in India faced issues in terms of experiencing a Nolan film.

Oppenheimer: Fans left shocked as Florence Pugh’s nude scene gets edited with CGI-made black dress in India

Fans were left in shock and amused when one scene featuring Florence Pugh was edited. In the movie, a scene features her nude. However, on Indian screens, she was covered in a CGI-made black dress. In this particular scene, Cillian Murphy who plays Robert Oppenheimer, meets his former lover, psychiatrist and physician Jean Tatlock. The two characters are seen talking to each other whilst sitting naked. However, in the Indian prints, Pugh is covered in a black dress.

The censored version of the Florence Pugh scene in OPPENHEIMER as it's being shown in India and various other countries has her in a CGI black dress. pic.twitter.com/uTKE7ZSADe
— Maaz (@gazingdarkness) July 23, 2023

Interestingly, the Universal Pictures film was released in the US with an ‘R’ rating. However, it got a U/A certificate in India. The film is already in controversy in the country over the Bhagavad Gita book’s appearance in an intimate scene in the movie which wasn’t cut.

Director Christopher Nolan is back with a story about the creation of the first atomic bomb by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Produced by Universal Pictures (distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery), Oppenheimer released on July 21 across theatres in India.