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‘The Vaccine War’ is an upcoming India's first bio-science film helmed by none other than Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, who delivered a massive hit last year with ‘The Kashmir Files’ which created a lot of buzz among the audience which stirred considerable controversy across the country. Now, he is all set for another outstanding story to present by talking about scientists' role in developing the indigenous BBV152 vaccine, commonly known as Covaxin.
Why no one wants to talk about ‘The Vaccine War’?
In a recent interview, Vivek Agnihotri claimed how purposely no one wants to talk about the film. He remarked, “When Buddha in a Traffic Jam came, at least 50-100 people reviewed it on YouTube. With The Tashkent Files, we had limited resources and could only release it in 175 theatres. These days, if you just write the name Jawan, at least 10,000 people will come and review it. People do so much YouTube-ing now. Yet, when such an important film like The Vaccine War is coming, and that too after I delivered a Rs 350-crore movie which also created a significant impact, nobody has reviewed it because money is being paid and there’s an embargo that nobody should utter our names.”
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How ‘The Vaccine War’ can grab your attention?
Talking about the film is a superhero film of Indian scientists, who developed the "world's fastest indigenous vaccine". Vivek said, “The Vaccine War is not about the COVID-19 warriors, it's a victory film. It is a war film. When you say Covid, you think about the frontline workers and doctors and patients, but you don't see any patient or doctor in the film. It's about a bunch of scientists who believed that India can do it (battle the pandemic) while others thoughts India can't do it and how they made the world's fastest indigeneous vaccine. This is truly a superhero film, a genuine authentic superhero film."
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“I didn’t want to fall into that trap…,” Agnihotri on production houses' approach on The Kashmir Files sequel
Further, Agnihotri talked about the moment when ‘The Kashmir Files’ became a hit several production houses were reaching out to him for its sequel with a hefty filmmaking amount. He shared, “I didn’t want to fall into that trap,” and continued, “After The Kashmir Files, every single studio was ready to give me Rs 200-300 crore and every star has called me privately expressing their desire to do The Delhi Files or The Kashmir Files Part 2 with me. Anybody in his right sense would make The Kashmir Files 2.”
Adding upon if he has prepared material for the sequel to which he humorously commented, “I could have done that to make money. Instead, we went back and made a smaller film, struggling so hard, not sleeping for 50 days. Pallavi (actor and Agnihotri’s wife Pallavi Joshi) and I were running around. Whatever little money we earned, we have put it back into this film and if this film doesn’t work, I am back to where I was before The Kashmir Files.”
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Vivek reacts to a user saying his films are not worth watching
The director announced the advance bookings started for ‘The Vaccine War’ on X (formerly Twitter) a netizen wrote, "In my opinion, your movies are not worth watching. So would appeal to people not to waste their time. May Prabhu Shree Ram Ji give you some sadbudhi." To which Agnihotri replied saying, “You just wasted time in writing this tweet. Means you are worried. Yeh dar achcha hai. (This fear is good)."
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s directorial will star Nana Patekar, Raima Sen, Pallavi Joshi, Sapthami Gowda and Anupam Kher in key roles. Bankrolled by Pallavi Joshi, which is set to hit the theatres on September 28, releasing in not just 4 or 5 but the film is releasing in 10 different languages!