Vaccine Wars - Indian Medical Drama Film 2023

 The Vaccine War

Vaccine Wars is a 2023 Indian Hindi medical drama film directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Pallavi Joshi. It is a fictional recreation of the development of Covaxin during the coronavirus pandemic in India and highlights the efforts of the scientists involved in its development. The film stars Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Raima Sen, Anupam Kher, Girija Oak, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Saptami Gowda and Mohan Kapoor.

'The Vaccine War' released in theaters on September 28, 2023, at the same time as 'Ananta Chaturdashi'.Plot summary in a Single Sentence

The film celebrates the efforts of the scientific and medical communities during the turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cast

·        Nana Patekar as Dr. Balram Bhargava

·        Pallavi Joshi as Dr. Priya Abraham

·        Raima Sen as Rohini Singh Dhulla

·        Sapthami Gowda as Dr. Sreelakshmy Mohandas

·        Anupam Kher as Cabinet Secretary

·        Girija Oak as Dr. Nivedita Gupta

·        Nivedita Bhattacharya as Dr. Pragya Yadav

·        Mohan Kapur as Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar

·        Yagya Turlapathi

·        Paritosh Sand

·        Sougata Ghosh

·        Vivek Prabhakar as Scientist

·        Aanchal Dwivedi

·        Sneha Miland 

Production

The film adaptation was announced in November 2022, with the final schedule starting in June 2023 and filming finishing on August 13, 2023.

Release

Theatrical

The theatrical release date was announced through a teaser on India's 77th Independence Day. The film will be released on September 28, 2023. Previously, he was scheduled to be released on August 15, 2023, and then on October 24, 2023. It will be released in 11 Indian languages ​​including Hindi, English, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Bhojpuri.

The official trailer was released on his September 12, 2023. 'Vaccine War' is being touted as 'India's first bioscience film'. The film was released in theaters on September 28, 2023.

Reception

Critical reception

"The Vaccine War" garnered combined reviews, with Mudit Bhatnagar of Times Now score it 3.5/5, praising its mixture of technological know-how and emotion.

Reviewing the movie, Shalini Langer of The Indian Express rated the movie with 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Vivek Agnihotri`s devotion to his subject – with glaringly the government's complete cooperation and access – veers the movie regularly in the direction of the appearance and sense of a public carrier broadcast".

Zinia Bandyopadhyay of India Today rated the movie with 2.5 out of five stars and wrote "looking the movie may supply the impact that the whole enterprise made it their assignment to undermine the vaccine and the committed scientists at the back of it."

Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India rated the movie with 2.5 out of five stars and wrote "Nana Patekar is extraordinary however the movie reduces itself to being a central authority mouthpiece parading as a scientific drama."

Venkat Arikatla of Greatandhra gave a score of 1.5 out of 5, calling it an overdose of propagandist torture. He stated, what the movie does is malign the ones newshounds who rightly wondered the ruling party's grand claims of being able to generating the vaccine.

Box office

According to a report in India Today, the 'Vaccine War' failed to cross 1 crore Indian Rupees mark on the first day, collecting only Rs 0.85 Indian rupees. According to initial estimates, the film faced challenges on its second day as well and is believed to have collected a similar box office collection of Rs 8.5 crore.

The film's total revenue is estimated to be around Rs 1.7 billion. “Vaccine War” recorded an overall Hindi audience rating of 11.77%. Times Now published a similar report, adding that based on the numbers, the film is unlikely to see any significant growth or upside at the weekend box office.