Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s ‘The Vaccine War’ will soon be part of the permanent core collection of the Oscar library. The filmmaker recently revealed the same and shared a screenshot of the mail he received from The Academy. ‘The Vaccine War’ hit theatres on September 28 and stars Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Raima Sen, and Anupam Kher in the lead roles. The film did not witness a positive commercial run, but was appreciated by several personalities for its screenplay and performance.
Sharing the same on his X (formerly known as X), Vivek Agnihotri wrote, “I am proud that the script of The Vaccine War 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.”
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In the email it was mentioned, “We here in the Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & 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."
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The mail further read, “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."
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‘The Vaccine War’ also features Sapthami Gowda, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Girija Oak and Mohan Kapur in pivotal roles.