Christopher Nolan s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig s Barbie are competing at the Indian box office. Barbie is outperforming Oppenheimer globally, but the biopic is a sure winner in India.
While Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ will go down in history as a gripping character study of a man burdened by the weight of his own creation, what ‘Barbie’ has spurred is no less than a cultural shift.