The Vaccine War

The Vaccine War is an Indian drama and thriller about the effort to develop and produce a vaccine during the Covid-19 pandemic. Indian scientists take on the task of building a vaccine at home while working with limited resources and infrastructure, racing to protect the country's population as the crisis grows. The film is set within India's scientific and public health institutions and follows the people leading that effort through the pressure and obstacles surrounding it.

Vivek Agnihotri directed and wrote the screenplay, and Pallavi Joshi produced. It is the third film in the chronological list of Agnihotri's directing work, arriving between The Kashmir Files in 2022 and The Bengal Files in 2025, after Junooniyat in 2016. The cast includes Nana Patekar as Dr. Balram Bhargava, Pallavi Joshi as Dr. Priya Abraham, Raima Sen as Rohini Singh Dhulia, Girija Oak as Dr. Nivedita Gupta and Nivedita Bhattacharya as Dr. Pragya D. Yadav. It runs 160 minutes and was made for about 1 million USD through Pen Studios, Abhishek Agarwal Arts and I am Buddha Production.

Released on 28 September 2023, the film has a 7.1 rating on IMDb from around 25,000 votes, while on TMDB it holds a 5.8 from a much smaller number of votes.