Mumbai, May 15 -- Shekhar Kapur has loads of interesting projects in his kitty. One of them is a historical biopic about vaccine pioneer and bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine.

Haffkine, little known to the general public, was the Ukrainian-Jewish scientist whose work on cholera and plague vaccines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries helped save millions of lives. The British Raj appointed Haffkine as their State Bacteriologist in India, but falsely accused him of killing nineteen people from tetanus in what became known as "the Second Dreyfus Affair," as per Deadline.

Set across Odesa, Paris, London, Mumbai and Kolkata, the film "will follow Haffkine, a brilliant outsider, as he is shaped by persecution, exile and person...