The Vaccine War is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language medical docudrama film directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Pallavi Joshi.
The film features Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Raima Sen, Anupam Kher, Girija Oak, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Sapthami Gowda, and Mohan Kapur.
A scientific team of bioengineers led by Dr. Priya Abraham, Director of ICMR-National Institute of Virology, consists of Virologists Dr. Sreelekshmy Mohandas, Dr. Nivedita Gupta, Dr. Anita Aich and Dr. Pragya Yadav; Epidemiologists and Infectious Disease Scientists Dr. Rajni Kant Srivastava, Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar, Dr. Samiran Panda, Dr. Varsha Potdar and Dr. Enna Dogra Gupta.
The team then reports the development of an inactivated whole-virion SARS-CoV-2 vaccine BBV152, which elicits a neutralizing antibody response in animal studies, and phase I clinical trial against hCoV-19/India/2020770.
[8] It is planned to be released in eleven Indian languages[10] including Hindi, English, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Bhojpuri.
He stated, what the film does is malign those journalists who rightly questioned the ruling party's grand claims of being capable of producing the vaccine.
[20] The film is also reviewed by Manoj Kumar and Manish Sachan in Media Asia,[21] Anuj Kumar of The Hindu,[22] Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in,[23] Monika Rawal Kukreja of Hindustan Times,[24] Guruprasad D. N. of Deccan Herald,[25] Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express,[26] Pooja Biraia Jaiswal of The Week,[27] Garima Sadhwani[28] and Pratikshy Mishra[29] of The Quint, Mayur Sanap of Rediff.com,[30] and Lachmi Deb Roy of Firstpost.