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The Vaccine War review: Nana Patekar is terrific in a film that is nearly undone by a laborious third act
Directed by Vivek Agnihotri, The Vaccine War is persuasive and entertaining until it begins to feel like a brand statement.
In The Vaccine War, Nana Patekar’s headline act, minimalistic in its geometry but all-encompassing in its impact, holds the frame, even from the corner of a room. (Screen grab/YouTube/PEN Movies)
“
Hum process
ke hisaab se war
ladenge, yaa war
ke hisaab se process
banayenge,” Bhargava, the Director-General of ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), asks in a rousing scene from
The Vaccine War. It’s a war cry tautly masquerading as a scientific query that asks, in the absence of precedence, would the process matter or would the result? Delivered by the film’s unsentimental anchor, it perfectly encapsulates the dilemma at the heart of a film that is, perhaps, too assured of its opinion on the matter.
The Vaccine War is a straightforward underdog story, divided into 12 interconnected chapters that are quite simply fragments of a whole. Based on
Balram Bhargava’s book
Going Viral, it tells the story of Covaxin, India’s first indigenous and much-scrutinized Covid vaccine, developed on a war footing during the dreary days of pandemic. Fronted by a terrific Nana Patekar, a laborious third act notwithstanding,
The Vaccine War is an enthralling if wildly aphoristic chronicle of the silent war our scientists waged against an unrelenting enemy.
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