How to strip all visual composer shortcode/tags from wordpress’s post_content fetched with custom query

Solution:

I want to remove/strip all these shortcode from the content and retrieve only plain text from it.

Solution that worked for me:

$content = strip_tags( do_shortcode( $post->post_content ) );

do_shortcode triggers all visual composer shortcodes and thus returns html+text;

strip_tags removes all html tags and returns plain text.