Bhavesh Joshi Superhero is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language vigilante action film directed by Vikramaditya Motwane under Phantom Films banner and co-written by Motwane along with Anurag Kashyap and Abhay Koranne. It stars Harshvardhan Kapoor in the lead role along with Priyanshu Painyuli, Ashish Verma and Nishikant Kamat in the supporting roles. The film revolves around a successful vigilante group that fades away with time but resurfaces when one of its members discovers the theft of water by a local politician and his henchmen. This was Nishikant Kamat’s last film as actor before his death on 17 August 2020.
Bhavesh Joshi, Sikandar Khanna aka Siku and Rajat are three young men, who meet in an anti-corruption rally and become friends. They later come up with a YouTube channel ‘Justice TV’, creating an online show about justice and trying to show the people about the common wrongdoings and corruption which are rampant in the city. Initially, their show garners success, where they wear paper-bag masks and help to solve or confront some small scale corruptions in and around their neighborhood.
Time goes by; Siku and Rajat get jobs at the corporate sector after completing their graduation. Their interest for Justice TV gradually fades out except for Bhavesh, who gets obsessed about eradicating corruption from society and continues with his vigilante acts, despite a fall in their channel viewership. Bhavesh receives an email from an elderly citizen about water problems existing in and around his locality and starts investigating the case. He discovers that the water pipes across the city meant for delivering water to the households have been fitted with extra pipes to siphon out water to water tankers which are then delivered to the various neighborhoods making people buy the same water which they were supposed to receive for free from the municipality. Bhavesh leaks this news to his channel, and this results in the water crime syndicate leader Patil, who is responsible for this act orders a manhunt to look into the true identity of the masked man behind Justice TV.
In the meantime, despite providing all the proper documents and doing multiple follow ups with the local police station, Siku’s police clearance for his VISA processing to move to the US doesn’t get approved, until he pays a bribe to the police officials to get the things done. Bhavesh becomes furious knowing this, and they get initially engaged in a verbal argument. An enraged Bhavesh tells that all the government officials and politicians are corrupt and should be eradicated to cleanse the society with Siku recording his dialogues on his phone. Bhavesh later punches Siku, breaking his nose. An enraged Siku uploads the video on the Justice TV channel. Soon, Bhavesh is termed by the media as national fugitive and is beaten by an angry mob and also arrested by the police,