Plot

A humanoid alien (Aamir Khan) lands on Earth naked on a research mission in Rajasthan, but is
stranded when the remote control of his spaceship is stolen. He manages to get the thief's cassette
recorder, a National Panasonic RQ-565D. On the same day in Bruges, Jaggu (Anushka Sharma)
meets a man named Sarfaraz (Sushant Singh Rajput) and falls in love with him. Jaggu's father
(Parikshit Sahni) objects to their relationship because Sarfaraz is a Muslim from Pakistan, and
Jaggu is a Hindu. He consults godman Tapasvi Maharaj (Saurabh Shukla) who predicts that
Sarfaraz will betray Jaggu. Determined to prove them wrong, Jaggu proposes to Sarfaraz. She is
heart-broken at the wedding chapel when she receives a letter calling off the marriage due to
their cultural differences.

She returns to India and becomes a TV reporter. Jaggu meets the alien and is intrigued when
watching him distribute leaflets about the "missing" Gods. She saves him when he attempts to
take money from a collection box, earning his trust. The alien tells his story. The alien landed on
earth and learned to fit in among humans by wearing clothes and using money stolen from
couples having sex in "dancing cars".

A truck carrying bandmaster Bhairon Singh (Sanjay Dutt) strikes him and renders him
unconscious. Bhairon takes him to a doctor, who assumes the alien has amnesia due to the
collision. Bhairon befriends the alien, and takes him along with his troop. The alien attempts to
learn to communicate by grabbing peoples' hands and absorbing their memories through touch,
but people chase him away, believing him to be a pervert. Bhairon takes him to a brothel, where
the alien holds a prostitute's (Reema Debnath) hand for six hours and thus learns the Bhojpuri
language.

Bhairon has a conversation with the alien, and suggests that the thief may be in Delhi. The alien
leaves for Delhi. Due to his strange behaviour, the people assume he is drunk and call him PK
(pee-kay, Hindi for "drunk"). People tell him that only "God" can help him find his remote. PK
sincerely practices every Indian religion attempting to find "God", to no avail. He later discovers
that Tapasvi has his remote, who claims it was a gift from God. Tapasvi refuses to return the
remote. Jaggu promises PK that she will recover his remote and he can go back home.

PK concludes that Tapasvi and other godmen must be dialling a "wrong number" to
communicate with God, and are therefore advising the public to engage in meaningless rituals.
Jaggu encourages the public to expose fraudulent godmen, by sending their videos to her news
channel, calling them "wrong numbers". Meanwhile, Bhairon finds the thief and contacts PK,
informing him they will come to Delhi, but both die in a blast.

Tapasvi decides to confront PK on-air. Tapasvi asks PK what the "right number" is. PK says the
"God that created us all" is the only one we should believe in, and that the other "duplicate Gods"
are created by man. Tapasvi claims he has a direct connection to God and refers to his prediction
of Sarfaraz's betrayal as proof. PK realizes that Sarfaraz did not write the letter. Jaggu contacts
the Pakistan Embassy in Belgium where Sarfaraz worked part-time. The embassy tells her that
Sarfaraz still loves her, and transfers the line to Sarfaraz. Jaggu and Sarfaraz reconnect, and
Tapasvi is forced to return PK's remote.
During the film, PK falls in love with Jaggu but refrains from telling her because she loves
Sarfaraz. Having filled his tape recorder with her voice alone, he takes two suitcases full of
batteries when leaving for home. After PK's departure, Jaggu publishes a book about him.

One year later, PK returns to Earth on a new research mission along with several other aliens
(including Ranbir Kapoor).

Cast
 Aamir Khan as PK
 Anushka Sharma as Jagat Janani Sahni (Jaggu)
 Sushant Singh Rajput as Sarfaraz Yousaf
 Boman Irani as Cherry Bajwa
 Saurabh Shukla as Tapasvi Maharaj
 Sanjay Dutt as Bhairon Singh
 Parikshit Sahni as Jayprakash Sahni
 Amardeep Jha as Jaggu's mother
 Ram Sethi as an old man (cameo)
 Reema Debnath as Phuljhadiya, the prostitute
 Rohitash Gaud as a police (cameo) inspector.
 Rukhsaar Rehman as Pakistan embassy receptionist
 Plabita Borthakur as Juggu's sister (cameo)
 Anil Mange as character dressed as Shiva
 Brijendra Kala as idol seller at a temple
 Ranbir Kapoor as an alien (cameo)