Gitanjali Angmo, wife of activist Sonam Wangchuk, praised Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and said Bollywood should rediscover its role in bringing India's epics to the screen with greater scale, sensitivity and intellectual depth. Her remarks came after Wangchuk's hunger strike over the NEET paper leak, while she also indirectly contrasted Hollywood's storytelling with Indian cinema.

Mumbai: Activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife and social entrepreneur Gitanjali Angmo ended up taking a subtle jibe at Bollywood in her latest social media post praising Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'.

She called watching 'The Odyssey' a "surreal" experience in her post on X (Earlier known as Twitter) that read, "Watched Odyssey yesterday. Surreal to see on screen what was still a conversation when I accidentally met Christopher Nolan in New York in 2024. Its themes feel so familiar to the Indian imagination: the hero’s journey, dharma and destiny, exile, temptation, homecoming, the human being tested and transformed along the way (sic)."

Expressing her views on the Indian film industry, Gitanjali added that cinema holds the power to build perspectives.

"India is sitting on a treasure-house of such epics. Imagine bringing them to cinema with scale, sensitivity and intellectual depth. Cinema is more than entertainment. It shapes minds. Perhaps Bollywood needs to rediscover its role as one of our most powerful classrooms," she further penned.