Vivek Agnihotri's The Vaccine War Gets Accepted At The Oscar Library, He Reacts 'I'm Proud Of...'

Vivek Agnihotri’s The Vaccine War was released after months of promotions and received a mostly positive response among Indian audiences. Now, the film has reached another milestone as its script got accepted into the Academy Collections by the Oscar Library. Vivek shared this news on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday and expressed his pride in his directorial project.

The director shared a screenshot of the acceptance email he had received and wrote, “I am proud that the script of #TheVaccineWar #ATrueStory has been invited and accepted in the ‘Academy Collections’ by the library of http://Oscars.org. I am happy that for hundreds of years, more and more serious people will read this great story of Indian superheroes.”

The email read, “We here in the Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are interested in acquiring a copy of the screenplay THE VACCINE WAR for the permanent Core Collection. Materials in our Core Collection are made available for study only in our reading room; scripts never circulate from the building and all copying is strictly forbidden. We are a research library freely open to all — students, filmmakers and writers as well as those with general interests make up our user profile.”

“Might you be able to provide a PDF of the shooting script for the collection? We make such files digitally accessible only in our reading room, behind our firewall,” the email further read.

The Vaccine War was released in cinemas on September 28. The film features Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Raima Sen, Anupam Kher, Girija Oak, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Sapthami Gowda and Mohan Kapur in prominent roles.

The story revolves around the true story of Indian bio-scientists in their endeavour to develop an affordable vaccine against Covid-19 for the country and the world. According to Vivek, it is India’s “first-ever bio-science” film.