9-year-old Avni Ayesha lives with her mother, Ayesha Haider. Avni’s father and a filmmaker, Ashish Mehta, meets them in secret because of his mother, Dayawanti, a religious yet corrupt Hindu woman. She hates Ayesha as she is a Muslim and rejects Avni due to the fact that she was born out of wedlock, to this day Avni has not had her Naamkaran (Naming Ceremony) and therefore goes by Avni Ayesha. Ashish Mehta is forced to marry Neela Parikh, who befriends with Avni and stands up against Dayawanti.