On Tuesday, Vivek Agnihotri took to Twitter and shared a video of protests against his film The Vaccine War outside theatres in Mumbai. Sharing the video, he asked ‘why people are getting rattled.’
On Tuesday, Vivek Agnihotri took to Twitter and shared a video of protests against his film The Vaccine War outside theatres in Mumbai. Sharing the video, he asked ‘why people are getting rattled.’
He wrote, “I have just received a video of protest against #TheVaccineWar. Why are people getting rattled if they are clean?” For the unversed, the protest is part of Awaken India Movement which alleged that many people lost their lives after taking vaccine.
Vivek Agnihotri wrote, “Why such protests against a positive #TheVaccineWar? The film isn’t about. COVID . It’s about making of the vaccine. Which part do you have problems with? Have you even seen the film which is inspiring everyone?”
Meanwhile, in a recent interview with Koimoi, when the filmmaker was asked if had expected such low numbers for The Vaccine War, he replied that he is not in the box office race and if he wanted to emulate the success of The Kashmir Files, he would have made The Kashmir Files 2. Vivek cited the example of the sales of Bhagavad Gita and Playboy in his explanation.
The National Award-winning filmmaker said, "Agar ek nayi bookshop mein, aap kahiye ki sirf aap do hi kitaabein bechenge. Aap rakh dijiye Playboy aur aap rakh dijiye Gita, toh aap khud dekh lijiye kaunsi zyaada chalti hai? Toh agar 1000 copies Playboy ki bikti hain toh sirf 10 copies Gita ki bikengi toh kya aap bolenge Gita flop hai? (If in a new bookshop, you decide to sell only two books. You keep Playboy and Bhagavad Gita, then you will see for yourself that which book sells more? If 1000 Playboy copies are sold and only 10 copies of Gita are sold, so will you say that Gita is a flop?)".
Apart from Nana Patekar, The Vaccine War also features Pallavi Joshi, Anupam Kher, Sapthami Gowda, Raima Sen, Girja Oak, Nivedita Bhattacharya, and Mohan Kapur in the lead roles. Produced by Pallavi Joshi and I Am Buddha Productions, the film is now screening in cinemas across the nation in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu languagues.
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