It all starts with Vishwas Rao (Shahid Kapoor) who wants to be a successful actor. But his mom Savitri (Padmini Kolhapure), an auto-rickshaw driver, wants him to be an honest cop. He lies his mom and tells her that he going to give an exam for entrance in Police department under whose disguise he seeks for a role in Mumbai.. Unfortunately he dons a cop uniform and is mistaken to be real cop.
Things mess up sooner as he is mistaken to be a real cop. In the midst of all he meets Kajal (Ileana D'Cruz) who too believes he is a cop and follows him sincerely. Such that is the impact that Rao invites a big trouble from a gangster Gundappa (Saurabh Shukla) and things get out of his control thereafter. Now how he gets rid of it that is how Phata Poster Nikla Hero deal with.
Rajkumar Santoshi has delivered action and comedy in all the more equal proportionate in his previous two comedy flick. Here he once again puts in both of these elements and let his artists capitalize over it. But unfortunately, even the superb acts by Shahid Kapoor and Ileana D' Cruz can't savor this drowning ship which battles hard in the high tides.
