Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2

• Sneha Jain as Gehna Desai (née Patel): Anant’s wife. She is an innocent, hard-working and kind-hearted house-worker in the Desai Mansion since the day of her father's death. She is despised by Kanak, Hema, Pankaj, Chetan, and Hiral. Praful and Jamna like Gehna for all the work she has done for the Desais for the past five years (2020–present)
• Harsh Nagar as Anant Desai: Praful and Jamna’s younger son; Gehna’s husband; Hiral, Tia, Chetan and Pankaj’s brother. A kind and a hearty person who always looks up to his parents and treats them with love. He understands Gehna and always wishes for the well-being of the Desais (2020–present)
• Akanksha Juneja as Kanak Desai (née Suryavanshi) : Pankaj's wife, A cunning, toxic, and manipulative woman who vows to ruin Gehna and Anant’s life. She always thinks bad about the Desais. (2020–present)

• Aliraza Namdar as Praful Desai: He is a big banker of Surat. Pankaj, Hiral, Chetan, Anant and Tia's father; Jamna's husband; Kokila's brother (2020–present)
• Anuradha Kanabar as Jamuna Desai: Pankaj, Hiral, Chetan, Anant and Tia's mother; Praful's wife. A kind-hearted and caring member of the Desais, who later starts hating Gehna after being influenced by Kanak. (2020–present)
• Jay Pathak as Pankaj Desai: Praful and Jamna's elder son; Hiral, Chetan, Anant and Tia's elder brother; Kanak's husband. He gets easily influenced into doing bad things by Kanak. (2020–present)
• Nadia Himani as Hema Desai: Chetan's wife; Piyush and Saachi's mother. She deeply hated Gehna and is a puppet of Kanak, always covering up for her. (2020–present)
• Prakash V. Wagela as Chetan Desai: Praful and Jamna's second son; Hiral, Anant, Tia and Pankaj's brother; Hema's husband; Piyush and Saachi's father. A cunning person who doesn’t like Hema because of her hogging atmosphere.(2020–present)
• Manas Adhiya as Sagar: Hema's brother who always harasses Gehna. (2020–present)
• Hardika Joshi as Hiral Sapan Kumar: Praful and Jamna's elder daughter; Tannu's mother; Sapan’s Wife. She keeps criticising Sapan for not earning enough. (2020–present)
• Ankur Panchal as Sapan Kumar: Hiral's husband; Tannu's father. A kind and a wholehearted person who cares for his family. He is a doctor. (2020–present)
• Jinal Jain as Tia Desai: Praful and Jamna's younger daughter. She always treats Gehna with love and always feels bad for how the Desais treat her. (2020–present)
• Prachi Bisht as Tannu Sapan Kumar: Hiral and Sapan's daughter. (2020–present)
• Krutika Desai as Radhika: Anant's ex fíance. Anant was supposed to marry her, but circumstances led Anant to marry Gehna. (2020–present)
• Hitesh Dave as Paresh Desai: Praful’s younger brother. A kind man who behaves more like a friend to the Desais and especially to Anant. (2020–present)

• Devoleena Bhattacharjee as Gopi Ahem Modi: She is Ahem's wife, Meera Vidya's and Ramakant's mother, Sita's Mother-in-law, Rashi and Radha's sister, Parag and Kokila's daughter-in-law, Urmila and Jeethu's niece and Jayantilal and Madhu's daughter. She is very religious, obedient, and close to Kokila. However, after Ahem's demise, she married Jaggi, Ahem's lookalike and half-brother. But actually, Ahem never died. (2020)
• Rupal Patel as Kokila Parag Modi: Parag's loving wife, Praful's sister; Ahem and Kinjal's caring mother. A strict, open-minded, and dominating matriarch of the Modi family. She keeps Gopi as her best daughter-in-law with pride. Later, she discovered that her son, Ahem who was thought to be dead is alive. (2020)
• Mohammad Nazim in double role as
  • Ahem Modi: Parag and Kokila's son and Gopi's husband. Kinjal, Jaggi, and Jigar's brother. He loves his wife, Gopi the most, and tattooed her name on his right hand. He is shown to be dead in Saath Nibhaana Saathiya but he actually survived and only lost his memory. He was saved and taken care by a young Gehna after which, wrestlers took care of him and renamed him Gopi. Later, he regains his memory and reunites with his family. (2020)
  • Jaggi Modi: Illegitimate son of Parag and Urvashi, stepson of Kokila, half-brother of Ahem and Kinjal, Gopi's second husband. A bubbly, carefree person who works in Mumbai and likes to make people laugh. He married Gopi after Ahem’s demise. (2020)
• Manish Arora as Parag Modi: Janko and Tolaram's younger son, Ahem, Jaggi and Kinjal's father, Kokila's husband and Chirag's younger brother and Urvashi's former lover (2020)
• Swati Shah as Hetal Chirag Modi: Chirag's wife, Jigar's mother, Rashi and Paridhi's mother-in-law. (2020)
• Vandana Vithlani as Urmila Jeetu Bhai Shah: Jeetu's wife, Rashi's mother, Gopi's aunt and Kokila's Friend. (2020)

In July 2020, Devoleena Bhattacharjee signed the contract for the new season with the production under plans since a year before.[6][7] Admist this, the rap by Yashraj Mukhate released on 21 August 2020 went viral and the re-run of the series Saath Nibhaana Saathiya during the Coronavirus lockdown was garnering good ratings which made the makers to immediately start production of the new season of the series and released the first promo on 31 August 2020 featuring Bhattacharjee reprising her role of Gopi Modi while the casting was not even started.[8]

Saathiya has been a talking point since its launch in 2010. Even after it ended, it remained on top of my mind and we came up with some ideas on how we could take it forward. During the lockdown, its reruns were widely watched and that made us believe this is a good time to bring it back with a new season. Its recall value is still very strong. There will be many new characters and a twist in the storyline, but it will remain a family show and be driven by relationships. We were working on a new storyline when his video came out and went viral, assuring us that we are on the right path.

— Producer Rashmi Sharma, [9]

The first promo of the series was released on 31 August 2020 featuring Bhattacharjee reprising her role of Gopi Modi from the former season.[10] In the next promo released on 1 October 2020, Bhattacharjee introduced Sneha Jain and Harsh Nagar as the lead characters Gehna and Anant.[11]

The main plot of the series is taken from Star Jalsha's Bengali series Ke Apon Ke Por, even though some parts of the story are removed from the plot of Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2. The extension of the first season's story is shown as the sub plot in this season merged with the main story, featuring Devoleena Bhattacharjee, Mohammad Nazim, Rupal Patel, Swati Shah, Vandana Vithlani and Manish Arora from the former series.[12]

With the release of first promo, Bhattacharjee, Rupal Patel and Mohammad Nazim were confirmed reprising their roles of Gopi, Kokila and Ahem .[13][14][15] Vishal Singh confirmed being approached for reprising their role of Jigar but did not confirm his entry.[16] Rucha Hasabnis declined to reprise her role Rashi Modi in the new season.[17]

On 13 September 2020, Sneha Jain and Harsh Nagar were confirmed as the main leads Gehna and Anant.[18] Soon, with the first look of the series, Vandana Vithlani, Swati Shah and Manish Arora were confirmed reprising their roles of Urmila Shah, Hetal Modi and Parag Modi .[19] Besides Jay Pathak, Akanksha Juneja, Nadia Himani, Prakash Vaghela, Aliraza Namdar and Anuradha Kanabar were cast.[20][21]

In the middle of November 2020, the entire cast of season one who reprised their roles quit the series.[22]

The Times of India reviewed, "Ahem's mysterious presence in Gopi's life, Kokila's sass and injustice towards Gehna will keep you hooked."[23]

India Today criticized the launch of the new season as unnecessary and on the other hand criticizing the former season saying, "During the course of seven years, the show took three major leaps – eight years, 10 years and four years. That is 22 years in total. Yet they've something left to tell the audience? Needless to say, how the show turned to be ridiculous on several occasions. Saath Nibhaana Saathiya tried to be progressive but the show was regressive to the core."[24]

The premiere episode on 19 October 2020 garnered a good TRP of 2.8 while averaging 2.2 in that week with 5.67 million impressions in Hindi GEC urban occupying third position and 8.16 million impressions overall occupying fifth position in Hindi GEC.[25][26][27]