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An Indian man with a magnanimous heart takes a young mute Pakistani girl back to her homeland to reunite her with her family.

A little mute girl from a Pakistani village gets lost on her return back from a trip to India. In Kurukshetra, she meets Pawan - an ardent devotee of Lord Hanuman - who is in the midst of a challenge posed by his lover's father. In trying to discover the girl's parents, he develops an unshakable bond with her. He tries to get into Pakistan through a path righteous to his conscience and later, accompanied with a smart Pakistani news reporter - a story that captures the imagination of the public in both countries.—Soumitra

In Sultanpur, a picturesque village in Pakistan, villagers have gathered to watch a game of cricket between India and Pakistan on television. Among them is a pregnant woman Razia Aziz (Meher Vij) who, after giving birth, names her daughter Shahida (Harshaali Malhotra) after Shahid Afridi, the player who had won the game for Pakistan. Shahida is mute from birth. When she doesn't return home by the end of the day, the villagers organize a search party. After hours of searching, they find the little girl on a branch protruding from the hill. She had been stuck on it for the entire day but couldn't call for help because of her disability. The following morning, her parents and neighbors discuss what must be done to help her. An older man suggests they take her to the shrine of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi, India. The religious family believes that visiting the holy shrine will bring peace and happiness and most importantly, restore Shahida's speech. Shahida's father Rauf (Mir Sarwar), being an ex-army-man, is sure that he won't be provided with a visa to India. Hence, her mother Razia takes it upon herself to travel far from the village for the first time. The trip goes as planned for the most part. The two reach the shrine, pay for offerings and get on a train back to their home country.

Returning from Delhi, the train makes a stop for repairs. Shahida gets off to play with a lamb as her mother dozes off. Unbeknownst to Shahida, the train drives off. Shahida boards a freight train, reaching Kurukshetra in the Indian state of Haryana. Razia notices her daughter is missing and stops the train. Policemen are appointed to look for the girl around the track where she was lost. However, they cannot find her since Shahida has already reached a different place. Razia meets her husband who is worried to death about his daughter. They cannot get an immediate visa back to India, much to their dismay. The parents have no other way but to pray that their daughter is safe.

In Haryana, Shahida meets Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi also known as Bajrangi (Salman Khan), a devout Brahmin and an ardent devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman. After a few minutes of trying to get her to talk, he realizes she is mute and starts calling her Munni. A starving Munni finishes the food and follows Pawan around. Assuming that she was separated from her parents during the festival, he asks her to stay in front of a temple. He believes that Lord Hanuman will take Munni home if she stays in front of his temple. When Munni still doesn't stop following him, he brings her to the police station. But since she cannot tell them any details about her parents, the police can only wait for someone to file a missing complaint. Until her parents are found, Munni needs a place to stay, hence, Pawan takes her in. On his way to his home in Delhi, he tells Munni to call him Mama if she ever talks in the future. He also starts naming different Indian cities, asking her to nod if she knows what city her parents are in. All the passengers on the bus help him but none of them name cities outside of India. As they talk, Pawan tells everyone how he came to Delhi for work.

In sequences of flashback, it is revealed that Bajrangi has been his father's reason for disappointment from his childhood due to failure in exams and being unable to fulfill his father's wishes. All his friends cheated and went on with their lives, but Pawan refused to cheat or lie, being a true devotee of Lord Hanuman. He graduates after eleven attempts at the exams, knowing which his father dies of shock.

Bajrangi, looking for a job, goes to the house of his father's friend and wrestling coach, Dayanand (Sharat Saxena), in Delhi. Having spent time together with his daughter Rasika (Kareena Kapoor Khan), they fall in love with each other and Dayanand promises of getting them married on the condition that Bajrangi get employed and own a house. Even since then, Pawan and Rasika have been working hard to collect money. The two are bound to get married sometime next year.

Cut to present, Bajrangi brings Munni to Dayanand's house, another devout Brahmin, who lets her stay on Bajrangi's convincing that Munni is a Brahmin as well, thanks to her fair complexion. Munni gets accustomed to being part of the household. Since the entire family is vegetarian, and Munni is accustomed to eating meat with every meal, she hardly ever finishes her food.

A couple of incidents in the following days lead to the revealing that Munni is in fact, a Pakistani Muslim. Pawan and Rasika find Shahida in a Muslim neighbor's home devouring home-cooked chicken. Pawan brings her to a restaurant that evening and lets her eat whatever she likes, even though eating meat is against his religion. Munni is very fond of the glittery bangles they sell on the street side. One day while walking down a market, she innocently picks up a pack of bangles before being stopped by the vendor. Pawan makes her return it and takes her to the temple to apologize to God for stealing. As he teaches her to join her hands, Munni sneaks into a Mosque nearby. Pawan is hesitant to follow her inside but he does it anyway. To his utter surprise, he sees her reading the Quran in front of a shrine.

That night is a cricket match against Pakistan and India. The entire family watches it on TV, cheering for India, except Munni who cheers when Pakistan scores. When the Pakistani team wins the game, she dances and kisses their flag on TV. Pawan approaches her and asks her if she is from Pakistan. After weeks of shaking her head to every Indian city, Munni finally nods yes. An enraged Dayanand orders Bajrangi to make arrangements to have her sent to Pakistan through the Pakistan embassy, where Bajrangi's pleading fails. A sudden turn of events stirs him to take Munni to her parents in Pakistan, in person and without a passport and visa.

With an unofficial consent from Pakistani soldiers patrolling the order, Bajrangi and Munni enter into the main territory of Pakistan. Shortly after their arrival, Bajrangi is arrested, having been suspected for an Indian spy. He escapes with Munni and meets Chand Nawab (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a correspondent employed with a Pakistani television channel, who has closely been following the developments. Moved by the story, Nawab joins Bajrangi in aiding him find Munni's parents. Also assisting them in their quest is an Islamic religious scholar Maulana Azad (Om Puri), who helps them avoid capture by police and takes them to a safer location, and directs them to Pakistan-administered Kashmir, after Munni recognizes an area similar to her hometown, from a photo in a calendar.

Nawab captures their journey on video and narrates the story, and no channels agree to air it. Disappointed, he uploads the video on the Internet. Munni recognizes her mother walking by, in the video, and with a bus driver's assistance, the trio single out Sultanpur as Munni's hometown. They board a Sultanpur-heading bus, and are stopped by a squad of police who are on the lookout for 'the Indian spy'. Devising a plan to divert their attention, Bajrangi gets off the bus and runs toward the jungle in full view. He gets tracked down, beaten, and shot in the arm. Meanwhile, Nawab and Munni reach Sultanpur, where Munni is finally reunited with her mother.

The first and the subsequent video uploaded by Nawab goes viral throughout India and Pakistan. A compassionate senior officer realizes that Bajrangi is innocent, and has him released, defying the order of keeping him in jail, what he felt would be petty on the part of Pakistan.

Thousands of Pakistanis come to see Bajrangi off, and Indians to receive him, across the border. As Bajrangi crosses the border, Shahida, who is also in the crowd, runs toward the fence and cries out for him with her now regained speech; Bajrangi is ecstatic to see her, they run towards each other and embrace.