Genius is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language romantic psychological action thriller film directed by Anil Sharma.

Ishita Chauhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Mithun Chakraborty, with Ayesha Jhulka,[3] and Malti Chahar play supporting roles in the film.

[4][5][6] The film starts with Vasudev Shastri, a genius Research and Analysis Wing agent, being labelled as incompetent because he had failed in an important mission and got himself too injured to work again.

The film then goes into a flashback where Vasudev Shastri who is a topper yet charming man who comes to IIT Roorkee where the second ranker, Nandini Chauhan, out of jealousy, decides to make his life hell.

Besides being the friendly "genius" around campus, he secretly uses his hacking talent working part time for RAW.

Hearing this, Nandini immediately hatches a cunning plan and gives Vasudev sleeping pills so that he is unable to attend the exam the next day.

The film returns to the present, where Vasudev, who is labelled incompetent by RAW, uses a walking stick and suffers from acute tinnitus and several injuries since his failed mission.

With the help of RAW, Vasudev finds Nandini, saves Mathura from a huge blast and finally kills MRS by drowning him in the river.