diff --git a/library/Zend/View/Renderer/PhpRenderer.php b/library/Zend/View/Renderer/PhpRenderer.php
index 87baf3d988f..f2242a5f5c1 100644
--- a/library/Zend/View/Renderer/PhpRenderer.php
+++ b/library/Zend/View/Renderer/PhpRenderer.php
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ public function __call($method, $argv)
             $this->__pluginCache[$method] = $this->plugin($method);
         }
         if (is_callable($this->__pluginCache[$method])) {
-            return call_user_func_array($this->__pluginCache[$method], $argv);
+            return call_user_func_array($this->plugin($method), $argv);
         }
         return $this->__pluginCache[$method];
     }
diff --git a/tests/ZendTest/View/PhpRendererTest.php b/tests/ZendTest/View/PhpRendererTest.php
index 12c6aff1578..01aa11acdad 100644
--- a/tests/ZendTest/View/PhpRendererTest.php
+++ b/tests/ZendTest/View/PhpRendererTest.php
@@ -421,4 +421,25 @@ public function testIfViewModelComposesVariablesInstanceThenRendererUsesIt()
         $test = $this->renderer->render($model);
         $this->assertContains('BAR-BAZ-BAT', $test);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @group ZF2-4221
+     */
+    public function testSharedInstanceHelper()
+    {
+        $helpers = $this->renderer->getHelperPluginManager();
+        $helpers->setInvokableClass('sharedinstance', 'ZendTest\View\TestAsset\SharedInstance');
+
+        $helpers->setShared('sharedinstance',false);
+        // new instance always created when shared = false
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $this->renderer->sharedinstance());
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $this->renderer->sharedinstance());
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $this->renderer->sharedinstance());
+
+        $helpers->setShared('sharedinstance',true);
+        // use shared instance when shared = true
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $this->renderer->sharedinstance());
+        $this->assertEquals(2, $this->renderer->sharedinstance());
+        $this->assertEquals(3, $this->renderer->sharedinstance());
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/ZendTest/View/TestAsset/SharedInstance.php b/tests/ZendTest/View/TestAsset/SharedInstance.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a8f97118dba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ZendTest/View/TestAsset/SharedInstance.php
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com/)
+ *
+ * @link      http://github.com/zendframework/zf2 for the canonical source repository
+ * @copyright Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Zend Technologies USA Inc. (http://www.zend.com)
+ * @license   http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd New BSD License
+ */
+
+namespace ZendTest\View\TestAsset;
+
+use Zend\View\Helper\AbstractHelper as Helper;
+
+class SharedInstance extends Helper
+{
+    protected $count = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * Invokable functor
+     *
+     * @return int
+     */
+    public function __invoke()
+    {
+        $this->count++;
+        return $this->count;
+    }
+}