Bhavesh Joshi Superhero(2018)

Plot Summary

• Bhavesh Joshi (Priyanshu Painyuli), Sikandar "Siku" Khanna (Harshvardhan Kapoor) and Rajat (Ashish Verma) are three young men, who meet in an anti-corruption rally and become friends. Siku believes that corruption cannot be tackled by a political solution but needs for the common people to rise up against it and fight the scourge wherever they find it. They later come up with a YouTube channel Insaaf 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. Rajat is also working on a comic book character called Insaaf-Man, the who fights for justice to protect his beloved city of Mumbai.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 (like people cutting trees, urinating on walls, setting fire to garbage, throttling the internet speeds illegally, running a red light, students bunking school). For Siku this is an easy way to pick up girls, as he tells stories about how he is starting an anti-corruption movement. Siku meets Sneha and they start dating. Bhavesh and Siku are also enrolled in a martial arts class, which they don't take seriously. 5 years go by; Siku and Rajat get jobs at the corporate sector after completing their graduation. Their interest for Insaaf 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. Siku is offered a transfer to the US. Bhavesh is very angry that Siku is abandoning their mission and leaving to be a corporate stooge. Siku argues that people are not worried about their own lives, and hence the trio are just wasting their time trying to change society.Bhavesh receives an email from an elderly citizen about water problems existing in and around his locality and starts investigating the case. The elderly man says that he tried to meet the ward council person, but they always made an excuse about low rain in the catchment areas. As a result, the locality gets free water once a week, rather than twice a day, as per regulations. Bhavesh 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 (Pratap Phad), who is responsible for this act, to order a manhunt to look into the true identity of the masked man behind Insaaf TV. The elderly uncle Bharve who first met Bhavesh is beaten up by Patil's men.Meanwhile, 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.Siku is forced to pay the bribe to get the work done. Bhavesh becomes furious knowing this, and they initially get into 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 also makes some anti-national comments, but Siku stops recording when Bhavesh says that he is determined to stay and for his country because he cares. He is not like Siku who has chosen to run away. Bhavesh later punches Siku, breaking his nose. An enraged Siku uploads the video on the Insaaf 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 and his identity gets exposed to Patil, who warns him. Desperate to prove his innocence and uncover the truth to people, Bhavesh sets out to gather evidence despite being injured. He gets caught in the process and Patil beats him to death. The police hand over his body to Siku for last rites claiming it to be a road accident, and further warn him not to get involved into this. Blaming himself for Bhavesh's death, Siku tricks the police into believing that he has left for US and takes refuge in an abandoned hotel (it was constructed with corruption money and later the court ordered it to be sealed) which previously served as a safe house for their gang. He sets out covering his face in a mask. He visits Patil's pump house, where he finds Bhavesh's backpack. Suki sets fire, which blows up Patil's pump house, where he used to fill the siphoned water to the water trailers.Patil has backing from the local minister Rana (Nishikant Kamat). Siku gets himself a new vigilante costume, buys a motorcycle, customizes it by fitting nitro cylinders. Suki interrogates government officer Subhash Mhatre (Hrishikesh Joshi) (the ward council person, whose video he saw in Bhavesh's camera), who reveals that Bhavesh was killed by Patil as he was about to uncover his illegal water supply activities. A fight breaks out between him and Mhatre's men during the interrogation, and a nearly defeated Siku is saved by Bhavesh's martial arts trainer Thapa (Pabitra Rabha). Siku posts his interrogation video in Justice TV and reveals that he himself as the still-alive Bhavesh Joshi and also starts learning martial arts and other combat skills from the martial arts trainer.As the video goes viral, Patil gets arrested by the police. However, Mhatre gets killed, with police claiming it to be a suicide and Patil is released due to a lack of evidence. Siku disguises himself and visits the dance bar which Patil visits every night. He plants a bug in Patil's VIP room and gets to know that he is planning to blow up the water pipes across the city to create an acute shortage of drinking water. Siku had discovered that Patil was not selling the water he was stealing. He was sending the trucks outside of Mumbai. Siku follows the trucks and finds that there are several plots of land outside the city which are holding 400-500 each of these water tankers. However, Inspector Sunil Jadhav (Chinmay Mandlekar) discovers him in the bar one night, and after a long drawn-out motorcycle chase, Siku escapes, causing an angered Patil to kill a constable and forcing police to frame Bhavesh for the constable's death.Suspicious about the person behind Justice TV after Bhavesh's demise, Rajat spies on Siku's girlfriend Sneha (Shreiyah Sabharwal) and discovers that Siku is still in India and has assumed Bhavesh's identity. Siku arrives at the place targeted by Patil's men and fights them, later being defeated and unmasked in the process. They succeed in their mission of blowing up the water pipes with a wounded Siku watching in vain. Patil and Rana tell Inspector Jadhav to kill Siku and dump his body in water, thus blaming Bhavesh for this act against Mumbai.Jadhav hesitantly shoots and injures Siku. Rajat follows Siku and captures everything on camera. Once Siku is thrown into the water, Rajat rescues him and takes him to a hospital. However, Siku suggests him to fake his death and Rajat admits him to the hospital under a fake name. As Siku recovers, Mumbai suffers from the acute drinking water crisis. Rana meets the CM and tells him that he can arrange for water free of cost, but instead should get the contracts of all future water related projects. Everyone gets drinking water for free, and both the CM and Rana become heroes in common people's eyes.Rajat delivers the video of that night to Jadhav through a kid and forces him to open an investigation about the blast. As the true news spreads across the city, Bhavesh starts gaining support and protests begin everywhere. One night, Siku infiltrates Rana's house; Rana comes down, sees all his bodyguards knocked out and encounters Insaaf-Man (based on Rajat's graphic novel) at the balcony.

Storyline

• Bhavesh Joshi Superhero is an action film about a young man who wants to continue doing the right and challenge the wrong. And on this journey, he discovers that he's destined to do bigger things, which will transform him from a common man into a superhero. In a world encapsuled in corruption and lies, one man in the city of Mumbai belives that change is fundamental and will add up from all the small deeds. The discovery of an elaborate plot to engulf the city in a disaster has just been unearthed by Bhavesh Joshi. The scheme runs deep into the hands of the powerful men in Mumbai. Now the question remains, is one man enough to rebuild this city, let alone this country. — abrahamsarath