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 (Meher Vij) who, after giving birth, names her daughter Shahida after Shahid Afridi, the player who had won the game for Pakistan. On an afternoon, a six-year old Shahida falls off a cliff, but is saved by an overhanging tree. She loses her ability to speak from the accident. Her worried mother takes her to the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya, a Sufi saint, in Delhi, on the belief that it would regain the latter's speech. 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. Once there, she meets Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi also known as Bajrangi (Salman Khan), a devout Brahmin and an ardent devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman. He christens her "Munni" and tries in vain to find where she lives.