Saath Nibhaana Saathiya

Saath Nibhaana Saathiya
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Genre	Family Drama Romance Masala
Written by	Gautam Hegde Jyoti Tandon Shilpa Demello Ved Raj Bhavna Vyas Akash Deep
Directed by	Bhagwan Yadav Pawan Kumar Ravi Raj Mayank Gupta Pawan Sahu
Creative director(s)	Rashmi Sharma
Starring	Mohammad Nazim Devoleena Bhattacharjee Rucha Hasabnis Rupal Patel Giaa Manek Vishal Singh Tanya Sharma Sonam Lamba
Opening theme	Saath Nibhaana Saathiya by Alka Yagnik
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	2184 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Rashmi Sharma and Pawan Kumar
Editor(s)	Santosh Singh Dhananjay
Running time	21 minutes
Production company(s)	Rashmi Sharma Telefilms
Release
Original network	Star Plus
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Original release	3 May 2010 (2010-05-03) – 23 July 2017 (2017-07-23)
Chronology
Followed by	Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2
External links
Website

Saath Nibhaana Saathiya (transl. Stay With Me, My Love) is an Indian Hindi-language drama television produced by Rashmi Sharma under Rashmi Sharma Telefilms. The show premiered on 3 May 2010 and aired Weeknights at 7:00 PM IST on Star Plus. It initially starred Giaa Manek as the main character Gopi but got replaced by Devoleena Bhattacharjee in 2012. The show also starred Rucha Hasabnis, Mohammad Nazim, Rupal Patel, Vishal Singh, Tanya Sharma, Sonam Lamba.

It revolved around the Modi family and explored morals and values of a typical Gujarati joint family, when cousins Gopi and Rashi marry Modi sons, Ahem and Jigar. The storyline took several leaps including one year leap in June 2013, eight years leap in February 2014, and a further ten years in March 2015, four years in May 2016 and three months in March 2017. The series ended on 23 July 2017, completing 2,184 episodes. It was replaced by Tu Sooraj, Main Saanjh Piyaji.

A spiritual sequel and second season of the series, Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2 premiered on 19 October 2020 Replacing Rajan Shahi's Show Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke on StarPlus starring Devoleena Bhattacharjee, Rupal Patel in cameos and Sneha Jain, Harsh Nagar in the leads.

Series

Season		Episodes	Originally Broadcast
			First aired	Last aired
	1	2,184	3 May 2010 (2010-05-03)	23 July 2017 (2017-07-23)
	2	266	19 October 2020 ()	Present

Plot

Initially, the show focused on life and arranged the marriage of two cousin sisters, Gopi and Rashi. Urmila and Jitu adopted their niece, Gopi after her parents died. She is left illiterate, naive, kind and shy while their own daughter, Rashi is educated, friendly, lively and cunning. Gopi and Rashi are married respectively to Ahem and Jigar, the sons of Modi family. Eventually, Gopi's steadfast, kind-hearted mother-in-law, Kokila turns Gopi into a confident and smarter woman so that she is accepted by Ahem. Rashi tries many unsuccessful attempts to create trouble for Gopi, but in the end the cousins are happily accepted by their family. Kokila's daughter, Kinjal is married to Rashi's cousin, Dhaval. Later, Gopi gives birth to a daughter, Meera and Rashi delivers twin-sons, Sahir and Samar.

Gopi finds out that her parents are actually alive and reunite with them. Gopi's sister, Radha falls in love with Umang, who marries Radha, despite being already married to his accomplice Tripti who later kills him accidentally. Radha thinks Gopi is responsible for Umang's demise and plots against her and decides to hurt her daughter Meera. Gopi finds out she is pregnant again, but does not get the opportunity to tell the family. When the family is out at a picnic by a river, Radha orchestrates an accident which results in Gopi accidentally throwing Meera in the river. Kokila holds Gopi responsible for Meera's death, and makes her leave the house for taking away the family's happiness.

8 years later

Gopi gives birth and raises her second daughter, Vidya single-handedly, working as an art teacher and lives in Somgarh. Kokila and Ahem are depressed due to the loss of Meera and Gopi. Rashi is the new matriarch of the Modi family. Kinjal and Dhaval have a son Prateek. Along with Sahir, Samar and Prateek, Vidya learns that Ahem is her father. Soon, Gopi and Ahem meet each other during Ahem's remarriage with Radha. The entire family learns that Vidya is Gopi and Ahem's biological daughter. Eventually, Gopi and Ahem finds out that their long-lost daughter, Meera never died, but grew up as an orphan named, Gauri and retrieves her. The whole family is reunited after that.

Radha's true colors are revealed and sent to jail with Tripti. Later, Rashi sacrifices her life to save Gopi from the latter's obsessed former colleague Anurag Joshi, who was in love with her. Jigar goes into depression due to Rashi's demise and later gets married to Rashi's cousin, Paridhi, in force of his family.

Radha returns, tricking Jigar into sleeping with her and gets pregnant, ask her to divorce Paridhi or she will kill Meera and Vidya. Soon Radha delivers a daughter, who is also named Rashi. Radha runs away and threatens to kill baby Rashi. The Modi family follows her and Gopi realizes that her sister will never reform and that there is only one to stop Radha from hurting the Modi family. Then, Gopi stabs Radha to death and is sentenced to 14 years in jail.

10 years later

Gopi is released from Indore's Central Jail after 10 years, 4 years being reduced from her 14 years sentence due to her good behavior. She has changed the jail environment in those years and returns to Rajkot without letting the jail authorities inform her family about her release, as she wants to surprise them.

Instead, in Rajkot, she gets one big shock after another seeing the many twists and turns Modi family endured over 10 years. Kokila lives in Rashi's house as a maid to a mentally disabled Urmila. Jr. Rashi was not accepted by Paridhi after Gopi went to prison. Kinjal lives away from her husband and son in Modi Mansion. She is shocked to learn that Ahem,Meera and Vidya breaks relationship with Modis as Gopi abandoned them for family and Jr Rashi and ask Modis to do not try to contact them. Ahem lives with Meera, Vidya and a woman, Mansi Raheja (who took care of Gopi and Ahem's daughters as a mother) in Bandra, Mumbai and runs a Bakery shop by the name MV (after Meera-Vidya).

Gopi, Jigar and Kokila travel to Mumbai to bring back Ahem and Meera-Vidya. The personalities of Meera & Vidya have changed so drastically that Gopi couldn't recognize them initially. The silent, gentle and caring Meera has turned aggressive, rebellious and disrespectful towards elders. The talkative, fun-loving, naughty Vidya has turned gentle, mature likes her parents (Ahem and Gopi) and takes care of Meera, as opposed to how Meera took care of her in their childhood.

Ahem, Meera and Vidya blame Gopi for abandoning them for Jr. Rashi. Ahem, in an attempt to show he doesn't care or love Gopi anymore, tries to marry Mansi. One day Meera accidentally pushed Gopi from building but saves by Ahem in which Ahem has performed puja for her. Mansi realize that Ahem is still in love with Gopi and break his relationship with him. Eventually, Gopi manages to reunite the family. However, Meera refuses to accept Gopi and creates many problems for her.

Later, Kokila's childhood friend Gaura enters the story to take revenge for her brother's death, caused by Kokila's mistake. Oblivious to Gaura's intentions, Vidya's marriage is arranged to her grandson Shravan. Gaura secretly gets Meera married to her son Dharam, Shravan's father. Equally involved in the revenge game with Gaura, Dharam traps Meera in their plan by constantly instigating her against Modi family.

Gaura brainwashes Meera and makes her hate the Modis severely. During this time, Gopi's mother Madhu returns with her adopted daughter Sonakshi "Sona" to seek revenge for Radha's death. She secretly joins forces with Gaura. Madhu later dies and her adopted daughter Sona marries Sahir. Meera accepts Gopi and apologize to her. Gaura attempts to kill Kokila, and hurt the Modis several times, but she is eventually caught and arrested.

Later, Dharam and Meera gradually fall in love. Meera leaves the house returning to her family because of Gaura's behavior towards her. She decides to marry her ex-boyfriend Sanskaar. However, Dharam arrives and confesses his love, and Dharam and Meera get remarried. Later, Ahem dies from an accident arranged by Gaura. (In actuality, he was rescued by Gehna, which was revealed in Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2)

5 years later

Gopi is extremely depressed since Ahem's demise having not smiled or talked for years. Kokila has to look after Gopi on her own. Paridhi has thrown Sahir, Sona and their kids out of Modi mansion and gets Samar married to Monica, an educated fashionista who is just like her. The rest of the family has moved to Canada.

On the other hand, Vidya has a 4-year-old daughter, Priyal, but is hated by Meera who believes that Vidya was responsible for her miscarriage. The real culprit is actually Dharam's daughter Naiya, who did it for the sake of inheritance.

Kokila decides to accept Dr. Krishna Raheja's marriage proposal for Gopi, who recovers and refuses. Krishna is revealed to be Mansi's brother, who vows revenge on Gopi for separating Mansi from Ahem. Soon, Gopi and Kokila meet Ahem's look-alike Jaggi, who is later revealed to be Ahem and Kinjal's half-brother. Kokila ask him to save Gopi from Krishna's evil plans and later the Modis were successful.

Gopi later marries Jaggi to save him from the traps of an evil girl Radhika. The family accepts their relationship. Gaura returns to destroy Modi family and pays Chanda, the surrogate mother of Meera and Dharam's twins, to create troubles for the family and kills her when she attempts to expose her. Paridhi, Monica, Samar and Jigar leave for Canada.

Gaura blames Vidya for Chanda's death and tries to frame Kokila for the attempted murder of Jaggi's mother, Urvashi. Eventually, her crimes are caught and she is sent to prison for the accident that led to Ahem's death. The Modis rescue Sita Rathod from a forced marriage whose step-mother, Bhavani falls in love with Dharam and compels Meera to leave the house.

Gopi learns that she gave birth to twins during Vidya's birth; a daughter and son. Vidya and Her long-lost son Ramakant( Vidya's biological twin brother) is grown into a spoiled and selfish young man of Singapore. Her friend Antara cheated Gopi that she gaves birth to daughter but in actuality Vidya and Ramakant are Gopi and Ahem's twin children and Meera's younger siblings.Gopi goes there with Jaggi to retrieve him. Ramakant heavily troubles the Modis, but he is unable to return to Singapore due to his criminal record. The Modis arrange his marriage to Sita.

Ramakant elopes with and marries Sameera, who is Anita's daughter, wanting revenge from the Modis blaming them for Anita's death. She joins hands with Bhavani to ruin the Modi family and in between Meera returns. All the crimes of Bhavani and Sameera are later revealed. Ramakant apologizes for his past mistakes and marries Sita. Later, the show ends by showing that everybody lives happily ever after.

Cast

Main

Character	Actor	Year(s)	Description
Gopi Kapadia Modi	Giaa Manek	2010-2012	Jayantilal and Madhu's elder daughter; Urmila and Jeetu's niece and adopted daughter; Radha's sister; Rashi's cousin; Paridhi and Dhaval's relative cousin; Ahem and Jaggi's wife; Parag, Kokila and Urvashi's daughter-in-law; Meera, Vidya and Ramakant's mother; Priyal, Medha and Jr. Ahem's grandmother.
	Devoleena Bhattacharjee	2012-2017
Rashi Shah Modi	Rucha Hasabnis	2010–2014	Jeetu and Urmila's daughter; Gopi, Radha, Paridhi and Dhaval's cousin; Jigar's first wife; Sahir and Samar's mother; Jay, Veeru, Geeta and Jr. Sita's grandmother.
Kokila Desai Modi	Rupal Patel	2010–2017	Revati's elder daughter; Praful, Paresh and Jigna's sister; Hetal and Urvashi's relative cousin; Parag's first wife; Ahem and Kinjal's mother; Jaggi's step-mother; Gopi and Dhaval's mother-in-law; Meera, Vidya, Ramakant and Prateek's grandmother.
Ahem Modi	Mohammad Nazim	2010–2016	Kokila and Parag's son; Urvashi's relative nephew and foster/step-son; Kinjal's brother; Jaggi's half-brother; Jigar's cousin; Gopi's first husband; Madhu and Jayantilal's son-in-law; Meera, Vidya and Ramakant's father; Priyal, Medha and Jr. Ahem's grandfather.
Jaggi Modi		2016–2017	Parag and Urvashi's son; Kokila's relative nephew and foster/step-son; Ahem and Kinjal's half-brother; Jigar's cousin; Gopi's second husband; Madhu and Jayantilal's son-in-law; Meera, Vidya and Ramakant's uncle and step-father; Priyal, Medha and Jr. Ahem's granduncle and step-grandfather.
Jigar Modi	Vishal Singh	2010–2016	Hetal and Chirag's son; Ahem, Jaggi and Kinjal's cousin; Rashi and Paridhi's husband; Urmila, Jeetu and Jay's son-in-law; Sahir, Samar and Jr. Rashi's father; Jay, Veeru, Geeta and Jr. Sita's grandfather.
Paridhi Mehta Modi	Loveleen Kaur Sasan	2014–2017	Jai's daughter; Rashi and Dhaval's cousin; Gopi and Radha's relative cousin; Jigar's second wife; Sahir, Samar and Jr. Rashi's step-mother; Jay, Veeru, Geeta and Jr. Sita's step-grandmother.
Urmila Shah	Vandana Vithlani	2010–2017	Jeetu's wife; Rashi's mother; Jigar's mother-in-law turned aunt-in-law; Gopi, Radha, Dhaval and Paridhi's aunt; Kokila's rival turned friend; Sahir and Samar's grandmother.
Meera Modi Suryavanshi	Baby Riti	2013–2014	Baby Meera Modi
	Mazel Vyas	2014–2015	Child Meera Modi / Gauri
	Tanya Sharma	2015–2017	Adult Meera; Gopi and Ahem's elder daughter; Jaggi's step-daughter and elder niece; Vidya and Ramakant's elder sister; Dharam's second wife; Medha and Jr. Ahem's mother.
Vidya Modi Suryavanshi	Palak Panchal	2014–2015	Child Vidya Modi
	Sonam Lamba	2015–2017	Adult Vidya; Gopi and Ahem's younger daughter; Jaggi's step-daughter and younger niece; Meera's younger and Ramakant's elder sister; Shravan's wife; Priyal's mother.

Recurring

Character	Actor	Year(s)	Description
Parag Modi	Manish Arora	2010–2017	Janko and Tolaram's younger son; Chirag's younger brother; Urvashi and Kokila's husband; Revati's son-in-law; Ahem, Jaggi and Kinjal's father; Gopi and Dhaval's father-in-law; Meera, Vidya, Ramakant and Prateek's grandfather.
Chirag Modi	Neeraj Bharadwaj	2010–2016	Janko and Tolaram's elder son; Parag's brother; Hetal's husband; Jigar's father; Sahir, Samar and Jr. Rashi's grandfather.
Hetal Modi	Swati Shah		Kokila's relative cousin; Chirag's wife; Jigar's mother; Sahir, Samar and Jr. Rashi's grandmother.
Janko "Baa" Modi	Jyotsna Karyekar	2010–2011	Tolaram's wife; Parag and Chirag's mother; Ahem, Jaggi, Jigar and Kinjal's grandmother; Meera, Vidya, Ramakant, Samar, Sahir, Jr. Rashi and Prateek's great-grandmother.
	Aparna Kanekar	2011–2016
Kinjal Modi Desai	Firoza Khan	2010–2016	Kokila and Parag's daughter; Urvashi's step-daughter; Ahem's sister; Jaggi's half-sister; Jigar's cousin; Dhaval's wife; Prateek's mother.
Dhaval Desai	Ashish Sharma	2011–2015	Urmila and Jeetu's nephew and adopted son; Rashi and Paridhi's cousin; Kinjal's husband; Prateek's father.
Mani Chatterji	Neeru Aggarwal	2011-2012	Modi family's first maid; Meethi's cousin.
Meethi Chatterji	Beena Bhatt	2012-2016	Modi family's second maid; Mani's cousin.
Revati Desai	Gopi Desai	2010–2014	Praful, Paresh, Kokila and Jigna's mother; Ahem and Kinjal's grandmother; Jaggi's step-grandmother.
Radha Kapadia Mehta	Bhavini Purohit	2013–2015	Jayantilal and Madhu's younger daughter; Gopi's sister; Umang's second wife; Jr. Rashi's mother.
Madhu Shah Kapadia	Jaya Ojha	2013-2016	Jeetu's sister; Jayantilal's wife; Gopi and Radha's mother; Sonakshi's adopted mother; Rashi's aunt; Meera, Vidya, Ramakant and Jr. Rashi's grandmother.
Jayantilal Kapadia	Sanjeev Bhatt	2013–2014	Madhu's husband; Gopi and Radha's father; Rashi's uncle; Sonakshi adopted father; Meera, Vidya, Ramakant and Jr. Rashi's grandfather.
Jeetu Shah	Susheel Johari	2010–2014	Madhu's brother; Urmila's husband; Rashi's father; Gopi and Radha's uncle; Sahir and Samar's grandfather.
Sahir "Tolu" Modi	Ishant Bhanushali	2014–2015	Child Sahir Modi
	Paras Babbar	2015-2017	Adult Sahir; Rashi and Jigar's elder son; Paridhi's step-son; Samar's twin brother; Jr. Rashi's half-brother; Sonakshi's husband; Jay, Veeru, Geeta and Jr. Sita's father.
Sonakshi "Sona" Modi	Rashmi Singh	2015-2017	Madhu's adopted daughter; Sahir's wife; Jay, Veeru, Geeta and Jr. Sita's mother.
Samar "Molu" Modi	Eklavya Ahir	2014–2015	Child Samar Modi.
	Pratap Hada	2015-2017	Adult Samar; Rashi and Jigar's younger son; Paridhi's step-son; Sahir's twin brother; Jr. Rashi's half-brother; Monica's husband.
Monica "Mona" Samar Modi	Uppekha Jain	2016-2017	Samar's wife.
Prateek "Pappu" Desai	Vansh Sayani	2014-2015	Child Prateek Desai.
	Paras Tomar	2015	Adult Prateek; Kinjal and Dhaval's son.
Jr. Rashi Modi	Hiteeka Ruchchandran	2015–2016	Radha and Jigar's daughter; Paridhi's step-daughter; Sahir and Samar's half-sister.
Ramakant "Ricky" Modi	Rohit Suchanti	2017	Gopi and Ahem's long-lost son; Jaggi's step-son and nephew; Meera and Vidya's long-lost brother; Sita's husband.
Sita Rathore Modi	Shruti Prakash		Keshavlal's daughter; Bhavani's step-daughter; Ramakant's wife; Gopi, Ahem and Jaggi's daughter-in-law; .
Dharam Suryavanshi	Amar Upadhyay	2015–2017	Gaura's son; Durga and Meera's husband; Shravan, Naiya, Medha and Jr. Ahem's father; Priyal's grandfather.
Shravan Suryavanshi	Kunal Singh		Dharam and Durga's son; Naiya's brother; Medha and Jr. Ahem's half-brother; Vidya's husband; Priyal's father.
Gaura Suryavanshi	Vandana Pathak		Dharam's mother; Kokila's friend turned enemy; Shravan, Naiya, Medha and Jr. Ahem's grandmother.
Panna Singhania	Ashnoor Kaur	2010	Gopi's little neighbour
Sonia Singhania	Digangana Suryavanshi		Panna's sister
Karishma Shergill	Soni Singh	2010	Rashi's college friend
Sonal	Garima Tiwari		Dammini's daughter; Jigar's ex-fiancée
Anita Shroff	Iira Soni	2010–2012	Umang's sister; Ahem's ex-fiancée; Sameera's mother.
Umang Mehta	Akshay Sethi	2010; 2013	Anita's brother; Kinjal's ex-fiancé; Tripti and Radha's husband.
Gaurav Khanduja	Mohit Sehgal	2011	Ahem's business partner; Priya's husband
Priya Khanduja	Shruti Bapna		Gaurav's wife
Neha Kashyap	Toral Rasputra	2012	Gopi's friend
Arjun Rai	Arjun Bijlani		Ahem's cousin; Deepika's husband
Deepika Rai	Dalljiet Kaur		Arjun's wife
Neelam / Kusum	Gurpreet Kaur		A woman who came in as a maid to create trouble for the Modis.
Jigna Desai	Seema Deshmukh		Revati's younger daughter; Praful, Paresh and Kokila's sister; Sameer's wife
Daksha	Akanksha Juneja	2013	Savita's daughter
Tripti Mehta	Pooja Welling	2013–2014	Umang's first wife and murderer.
Jay Mehta	Deepak Dutta	2014–2015	Urmila's brother-in-law; Paridhi's father; Sahir, Samar and Jr. Rashi's step grandfather.
Anurag Joshi	Manoj Chandila	2014	Gopi's college friend and obsessive lover; Rashi's murderer
Vivaan Khanna	Shresth Kumar	2014–2015	Ahem's client; Paridhi's former fiancé
Durga Suryavanshi	Pubali Sanyal	2015–2016	Dharam's first wife; Shravan and Naiya's mother; Priyal's grandmother.
Sanskar Patel	Karan Khandelwal		Meera's ex-fiancé.
Mansi Raheja	Kajal Pisal	2015, 2016	Pramila's daughter; Krishna's sister; Ahem's bakery business partner; Meera and Vidya's adoptive mother.
Pramila Raheja	Utkarsha Naik	2016	Mansi and Krishna's mother
Dr. Krishna Raheja	Khalid Siddiqui		Pramila's son; Mansi's brother; Gopi's doctor turned rival.
Naiya Suryavanshi Agarwal	Pratibha Tiwari		Dharam and Durga's daughter; Shravan's sister; Medha and Jr. Ahem's half-sister; Prakash's wife
Prakash Agarwal	Harsh Rajput		Naiya's husband
Premlata	Heemakshi Ujjain		Kokila's imposter
ACP Ritesh Parmar	Sidharth Jain		ACP Officer
Urvashi Singh	Shagufta Ali	2016-2017	Parag's secret wife; Jaggi's mother; Ahem and Kinjal's step-mother.
Chanda	Anju Tiwari		Medha and Jr. Ahem's surrogate mother.
Radhika Bhosle	Payal Ghosh	2016	Jaggi's bride
Shanella	Nutan Rai	2017	Ramakant's ex-girlfriend
Karan	Puneett Chouksey		Dharam's business partner
Sameera Jaiswal	Priya Tandon		Anita's daughter; Pinku's wife
Pankaj "Pinku" Jaiswal	Vishal		Sameera's husband
Keshavlal Rathod	Rajesh Puri		Bhavani's husband; Sita's father.
Bhavani Rathod	Priya Marathe		Keshavlal's second wife; Sita's step-mother.

Guest appearances

Actor	Character	Year(s)	Description
Parul Chauhan	Ragini Rajvansh	2010	From Sapna Babul Ka... Bidaai
Sara Khan	Sadhna Rajvansh	2010
Harshad Chopda	Anurag Ganguly	2010	From Tere Liye
Anupriya Kapoor	Tani Ganguly	2010
Manasi Parekh	Gulaal	2010	From Zindagi Ki Har Rang... Gulaal
Pooja Gor	Pratigya Singh	2010	From Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya
Pavitra Punia	Geet Dhillon	2011	From Love U Zindagi
Sidharth Shukla	Rahul Kashyap	2011
Ragini Khanna	Suhana Kashyap	2011	From Sasural Genda Phool
Hina Khan	Akshara Singhania	2012	From Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
Krystle D'Souza	Jeevika Vadhera	2012	From Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai
Sanaya Irani	Khushi Raizada	2012	From Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?
Deepika Singh	Sandhya Rathi	2013	From Diya Aur Baati Hum
Divyanka Tripathi	Ishita Bhalla	2014	From Yeh Hai Mohabbatein
Aly Goni	Raj Kapoor	2015	To promote Kuch Toh Hai Tere Mere Darmiyaan
Asha Negi	Koyal Ghosh	2015
Shahrukh Khan	Raj Bakshi	2015	To promote Dilwale
Kajol	Meera Malik	2015
Kriti Sanon	Ishita Malik	2015
Varun Dhawan	Veer Bakshi	2015
Drashti Dhami	Naina Batra	2016	To promote Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil

Production

Casting

In May 2012, lead Giaa Manek signed on to appear on the reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa on rival network Colors TV. Saathiya producers objected, noting that Manek was under contract with their network and that doing a reality series could tarnish her onscreen image as a soft-spoken character. The producers took their complaints to the Association of Motion Pictures and TV Programme Producers (AMPTPP) and to Cine and TV Artistes’ Association (CINTAA) for arbitration. Members of CINTAA had meetings with Manek and asked her to quit the reality show. Manek declined and Star replaced her with Devoleena Bhattacharjee.

In January 2014, Rucha Hasabnis playing Rashi confirmed that she planned to quit the series any time in that year. However, owing to her marriage she decided to quit acting and she exited in August 2014 with her character being killed.

In May 2016, Mohammed Nazim playing Ahem quit the show and his character was killed off in the show. The reason from a source stated, "Since the existing key actors aired their reservations about playing grandparents, the creatives had no option but to put the time leap on hold. Something drastic needed to be done to liven up the storyline. After brainstorming, the best idea seemed to bump off Ahem's character, so a new man could be introduced in protagonist Gopi's life to take the story forward," Then, Khalid Siddiqui was cast opposite Bhattacharjee as Krishna in May 2016. As their story was not well received by the viewers, with a decrease in ratings, in July 2016, Nazim was made to re-enter the series as Jaggi, a look-a-like of Ahem's illegitimate twin half-brother and the story focused on him and Bhattacharjee.

In September 2015, Lovely Sasan playing Paridhi quit the series as she did not want to play the role of a mother. However, after sometime when the makers approached her, she agreed and returned in March 2016.

Filming

Based on Gujarat as backdrop, the series was mainly filmed at sets in Mira road near Mumbai. The outside shell of the Modi Mansion shown in the episodes was of the Shubham Villa located in Madh Island . In December 2012, a sequence was shot at Bhuj, Gujarat for 10 days. In March 2013, a sequence was shot at Madh Island.

Besides, some sequences were also filmed at foreign locations including Switzerland in May 2011 and Singapore in February and March 2017. Earlier, US was planned but was cancelled due to Visa issues of Mohammad Nazim and Singapore was finalized.

Reboot Series

Main article: Tera Mera Saath Rahe

On 26 May 2021, Shoonya Square Productions announced that they will be producing a reboot version of Saathiya on Star Plus's Sister channel Star Bharat with similar cast figures like Giaa Manek, Mohammad Nazim, Rupal Patel and Vandana Vithlani reprising their roles. Along with these actors, they will be several new characters with a different storyline but the same concept of a Gujarati Joint-Family. The show airs on Star Bharat, the sister channel of StarPlus. In early July 2021 the title was finalized as Tera Mera Saath Rahe. On 25 July 2021, the first promo was released featuring Giaa Manek and Rupal Patel.The reboot version started broadcasting from 16 August 2021.

Adaptations

Dubbed series and Remakes

Saath Nibhaana Saathiya has spawned several different language remakes including Intiki deepam illalu (Telugu), Pudhcha Paaul (Marathi), Deivam Thandha Veedu (Tamil), Chandanamazha (Malayalam), Amritavarshini (Kannada) and Bodhuboron (Bengali). It was dubbed in Telugu as Kodala Kodala Koduku Pellamaa on Star Maa and in Vietnamese as Am Muu Va Tin Yeu. All the versions including the dubbed one became successful ones being one of the most watched TV programmes in their respective regions, crossing 1000+ episodes, Tamil version ended with 992 episodes and the Telugu dubbed version ended with 854 episodes.

In 2016, this series was dubbed in Indonesian and aired under the title Gopi (according to the main character) starting September 15, 2016 until April 19, 2017. Re-airing in Indonesia starting March 17, 2021 on ANTV.

In 2021, despite earlier dubbed, it was remade in Telugu as Intiki Deepam Illalu on Star Maa.

International broadcast

Saath Nibhaana Saathiya aired in Pakistan on Urdu 1 and H Now Entertainment but was later discontinued due to ban on Indian content in the country. It also aired in Sri Lanka dubbed into Sinhala as Mage Sanda Obai on Swarnavahini. In Indonesia, it began airing on ANTV from 26 September 2016 under the title Gopi but was airing from Monday to Friday at 3:00 pm (Indonesia Western Time). It was broadcast by THVL 1 in Vietnam with the title Âm Mưu Và Tình Yêu. In Bulgaria, the series was dubbed in Bulgarian as Остани с мен on Diema Family. The series has been dubbed into Turkish as Masum on Kanal 7 where it began to air in March 2020 and ended on 30th July 2021. It was also broadcast in Romanian (Subtitled) as Suflete Tradate which aired on National TV.

Versions

Language	Title	Original release	Network(s)	Episodes
Hindi	Saath Nibhaana Saathiya	3 May 2010 - 23 July 2017	StarPlus	2184
Marathi	Pudhcha Paaul	2 May 2011 - 30 June 2017	Star Pravah	1943
Kannada	Amruthavarshini	3 September 2012 - 30 March 2017	Star Suvarna	1724
Tamil	Deivam Thandha Veedu	15 July 2013 - 26 May 2017	Star Vijay	992
Bengali	Bodhuboron	19 August 2013 - 29 January 2017	Star Jalsha	1163
Malayalam	Chandhanamazha	2 February 2014 - 9 December 2017	Asianet	1173
Telugu	Kodala Kodala Koduku Pellamaa (Dubbed)	12 March 2011 - 8 April 2018	Star Maa	854
	Intiki Deepam Illalu	22 March 2021 – present		Ongoing
Indonesia	Gopi (Dubbed Bahasa)	15 September 2016 - 19 April 2017	ANTV	Stopped (unknown episodes)
		17 March 2021 – present		Ongoing.

Reception

Critics

Hindustan Times appreciated the series for the majority cast being new comers however criticised the series as "The loud clothes and backward settings induce a pukey sensation. There's serious amount of overacting involved by the actors, whether they play protagonists or mums and dads. It't’s too old fashioned and boring".

Ratings

Initially starting with low viewership in May 2010, it increased gradually and also became one of the top rated Hindi GEC at that time. As in early November 2010, it occupied the top position with 5.3 TVR. As the ratings increased, It was acclaimed by Hindustan Times for redefining the 7:00pm (IST) slot as a prime time.

In the first week of 2011, it was the most watched Hindi GEC with 6.3 TVR. In week ending 26 March 2011, it occupied fourth position with 5 TVR. In week 13 of 2011, it was at third position with 5.31 TVR. In the week ending 9 April 2011, it was at the second position with 4.96 TVR. In week ending 3 September 2011, it topped with 6.3 TVR. In week 43, it was at top position with 6.5 TVR. In week 50, at December, the series garnered its highest rating of 7.58 TVR, being most watched Hindi GEC in that week, being the first Hindi GEC to garner that rating in its 7:00 pm (IST) slot. In week ending 3 December 2011, it maintained its top position garnering 6.26 TVR. Overall, it was the most watched Indian Hindi television show of 2011.

It maintained its first position in first week of 2012 garnering 6 TVR. On week 19 2012, it occupied first position with 5+ TVR, beating Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai which was in that position the previously week. In the week ending 21 July 2012, it was at sixth position with 2.9 TVR. In the last six months, the ratings of the series dipped averaging about 6 TVR to 3+ TVR, being one of the most watched Hindi GEC. As in mid December 2012, it was at third position with 4.3 TVR.

In June 2013, it was the sixth most watched Hindi GEC fiction with a trp of 2.6. In week 43 and 44, it garnered 7.4 and 7.5 million viewership. Overall, during 2013, it became the seventh most watched Indian Hindi Television program with an average of 6.4 million and peak of 8.7 million viewership.

In week 4 of 2014, it garnered a rating of 4.6 TVR. On week 49, it was in third position with 3.9 TVR. Overall, it still continued to maintain its position in the weekly list of top 10 Hindi GECs during 2014.

In second week of July 2015, it was at the top position. On week 32 of 2015, it was the most watched with 4 TVR while the previous week, it shared the first position with Kumkum Bhagya garnering 3.8 TVR. From week 33 to 35, it garnered 3.6, 3.4 and 3.6 TVR, maintaining its position in top five shows. In second week of September 2015, it was at second position with 4.3 TVR. In 2015, overall it maintained its weekly position in top ten watched Hindi GEC ranging between 3.5 and 4 TVR.

In week 4 of 2016, it garnered a TRP of 3.5 occupying third position. In week ending 29 April 2016, it was at third position with 10.51 million impressions and the following week at fourth position with 10.25 million impressions. In week 26, it was at third position with 9.386 million impressions. In week 35, it occupied second position with 10.68 million impressions. In week 41 it was at third position with 10.074 million impressions.

In week 4 of 2017, it was at seventh position in urban areas. Maintaining its position in top ten programs since weeks after the premiere, in 2017, the viewership dipped with it moving out of top ten Hindi GEC. In week 27 of 2017, it garnered 6.7 million impressions occupied twelfth position.

The rerun of the series in Star Utsav during COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 became one of the top five watched Hindi GEC.

In popular culture

The clip from an episode where the lead character Gopi (Giaa Manek) washes a laptop went viral and was subjected to various trolls and criticism.

On 21 August 2020, music composer Yashraj Mukhate uploaded an edited video which featured the characters Kokila (Rupal Patel), Rashi (Rucha Hasabnis) and Gopi (Gia Manek) in the soap opera by adding rap song to a dialogue delivery by Rupal Patel in which Kokila scolds Rashi for putting up the cooker without the chana (known also as gram or chickpeas) in the kitchen. The video quickly garnered over 4.5 million views as on 24 August 2020 in Instagram and memes also trended related to the rap song.

Awards

• Indian Television Academy Awards 2011: Best actress popular - Giaa Manek; Best serial popular - Saath Nibhana Saathiya
• Best Actress (Popular): Giaa Manek (Indian Telly Awards 2012)
• Best actress in a lead role: Devoleena Bhattacharjee (Indian telly awards 2015)
• Best daily series (Indian Telly awards 2015)
• Best actress in a lead Role critics: Devoleena Bhattacharjee (Gold awards 2016)
• Best actor in a supporting role: Vishal Singh (Jigar) (Gold awards 2014)
• Best Serial Saath Nibhana Saathiya (ITA 2015)
• Best actor in a supporting role: Rupal Patel (Kokila) (Indian Telly Awards 2012)

External links

• Official Website
• Saath Nibhaana Saathiya on IMDb