After The Kashmir Files, Vivek Agnihotri’s much-awaited film “The Vaccine War” has been released today. Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, and Anupam Kher, Raima Sen, Girija Oak, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Mohan Kapoor and Sapthami Gowda (popularly known for Kantara) are present in this multi-talents film.
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The Vaccine War: Why you should watch this film?
The story of the film reflects that part of the Corona pandemic about which we common people were unaware. The story revolves around the unsung heroes of the epidemic who did not go to their home for months, spent many nights in eyes and successfully prepared the life-saver Covaxin that was developed by ICMR and National Institute of Virology (NIV) in collaboration with Bharat Biotech.
Movie is based on the book ‘Going Viral’ by ICMR Director General Dr Balram Bhargava, due to which there was no dearth of facts in the film. However, Agnihotri kept the human emotions intact even inside the lab.
There was a scene in the movie when a female scientist takes a Monkey for testing and tells him that people do not know what contribution he has made in saving the world.
Along with emotions, humour also kept the cinema alive. Before going to the theatre, I had this thought in my mind that The Vaccine War is a movie on a serious subject. There will be no chance of laughter, or even to giggle at all, but the writer made sure that the first bio-scientist film of India should not bore the audience. The Vaccine War was moving smoothly by adding a touch of Sarcasm in between.
Talking about acting, Nana Patekar was the soul of the film. It seemed as if Vivek Agnihotri had asked Nana to play his own character. Like not acknowledging any achievement, but in the end make you cry by appreciating the effort, typical nana style.
Pallavi Joshi, the film’s lead actress, may have paid herself the highest fee (as she was the producer) for the first time to get scolded by Nana Patekar. What a performer! She was shown competing with Nana on the big screen while wearing prideful make-up.
Talking about the rest of the actors, everyone put their lives into the characters. The role of a home-maker as well as a scientist suited Nivedita Bhattacharya. Girija Oak, the only female scientist who had the strength to stand up to DG Balram.
Talking about Raima Sen, she left no stone unturned to make the show her name. The real villain in The Vaccine War was more Raima than Corona. Many also abused his character in the theatre during her scenes. It takes a lot of guts to play such role.
Anupam Kher’s Cameo is also impactful thus, whenever Nana got stuck, he was seen guiding him like Krishna.
After all this, if we talk about Vivek Agnihotri’s direction, he was seen doing two times better than The Kashmir Files. There was not much to show as the story revolved only around the making of the vaccine, yet the entertainment was not missed.
“Ye film dekhkar mera to mann ho raha hai ki fir se vaccine le lu” a guy sitting in a next said this line so innocently that I burst into laughter.
However, The Vaccine War is a movie that everyone should watch with their children so that they might explore a future as a bio scientist. As a country we always have brilliant brains with no or uneven directions, I hope this kind of cinema let our generation decide better to choose what they want and what they actually can.
I am ending this review by saying, we are proud of those scientists who contributed in saving the country from such a big crisis.
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