साथ निभाना साथिया

Saath Nibhaana Saathiya is an Indian Hindi-language soap opera produced by Rashmi Sharma under Rashmi Sharma Telefilms. It premiered on 3 May 2010 on Star Plus and became one of the most popular and longest running television series.The series starred Giaa Manek, Devoleena Bhattacharjee, Rucha Hasabnis, Rupal Patel, Mohammad Nazim, Vishal Singh, Loveleen Kaur Sasan, Tanya Sharma, Sonam Lamba, Amar Upadhyay, Kunal Singh and Rohit Suchanti.

This series 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; after leaps, it also focused simultaneously on the second generation. The storyline took several leaps including one year leap in June 2013, eight year leap in February 2014,ten years in February 2015,four years in May 2016 and three months in March 2017. The series ended on 23 July 2017, completing 2,184 episodes with its time slot taken by Tu Sooraj, Main Saanjh Piyaji.

The second season of the series, Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2 premiered on 19 October 2020 on Star Plus starring Devoleena Bhattacharjee, Rupal Patel, Nazim in cameos and Sneha Jain and Harsh Nagar in lead role.

Plot
Gopi, an illiterate, kind and shy girl, has been adopted by her aunt and uncle, Urmila and Jeetu after her parents' death. Urmila and Jeetu's daughter, Rashi Shah, is educated, friendly, lively and cunning. Gopi and Rashi marry cousins Ahem and Jigar, the sons of Modi family. Kokila, Ahem's steadfast and kind-hearted mother, makes Gopi smarter and confident so he accept her. Rashi often tries to create trouble for her but later regrets, and both are happily accepted. Ahem's sister, Kinjal gets married to Rashi's cousin, Dhaval. Later, Gopi and Ahem have a daughter, Meera while Rashi and Jigar have twin sons, Sahir and Samar.

Gopi finds out her parents are actually alive and unites with them. Her evil sister, Radha marries Umang Mehta, whose first wife Tripti kills him. Radha blames Gopi for Umang's death and decides to hurt Meera. Gopi finds out she is pregnant again, but unable to tell the family. When the family is out at a picnic, 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 and Ahem's second daughter, Vidya single-handedly, working as an art teacher 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 meets Ahem and revealed that Vidya is their own daughter. Eventually, Gopi and Ahem find their long-lost daughter, Meera, who grew up as an orphan named Gauri. The whole family is reunited after Radha's true colors are revealed, and she is sent to jail with Tripti.

Rashi's cousin, Paridhi enters into Modi house. Later, Rashi sacrifices her life to save Gopi from the latter's obsessed colleague, Anurag Joshi. Jigar goes into depression due to Rashi's demise. Paridhi starts impress Modis. Jigar marries Paridhi, in force of his family.

Radha returns, tricks Jigar into sleeping with her, and gets pregnant. Soon Radha delivers a daughter, who is also named Rashi .Paridhi being mother and took responsibility of Rashi where as Radha threatens to kill baby Rashi. The Modi family follows her. Gopi realizes that her sister will never reform and stabs Radha to death and is sentenced to 14 years.

10 years later
Gopi is released after 10 years, 4 years being reduced from her 14 years sentence due to her good behavior. She returns to her family without letting the jail authorities inform her family about her release, as she wants to surprise them. However, Gopi is shocked seeing the many twists happened in Modi family. 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. Ahem lives with Meera, Vidya and a woman, Mansi Raheja (who took care of Meera and Vidya) 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 and 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 fun-loving, naughty Vidya has turned gentle 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 and hate her. Ahem attempts to show he doesn't care Gopi anymore. Meera accidentally pushes Gopi from building but is saved by Ahem for which Ahem has performed puja for her. Eventually, Gopi manages to reunite the family. However, Meera refuses to accept Gopi and creates many problems for her. Kinjal, Dhawal and Prateek leave for America.

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

During this time, Gopi's mother, Madhu returns with her adopted daughter Sonakshi "Sona". She blames Kokila for Radha's death & having alienated Gopi from her, so she seeks revenge. In collaboration with Gaura, she gets Kokila kidnapped & had her replaced by a dopple-ganger named Premlata. Premlata nearly killed Kokila by electrocution but Gopi saves Kokila & exposes Premlata. Madhu then tries to stab Kokila but Gopi comes to Kokila's rescue & gets stabbed. Unable to bear the guilt of having stabbed her own daughter, Madhu commits suicide. Gopi survives & Sona marries Sahir. Paridhi returns from America & refuses to accept Sona as daughter in law. 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.

Dharam and Meera gradually fall in love and they get remarried. On the same day, Ahem dies from a car accident arranged by Gaura.

4 years later
Gopi is in depression since Ahem's demise having not talked for years. Kokila has to look after Gopi on her own. Paridhi and Jigar's personality have changed and they did not care for the family. Hetal, Chirag, Baa and Jr. Rashi live in Canada. Paridhi has thrown Sahir, Sona and their kids out of Modi mansion and gets Samar married to an educated fashionista, Monica.

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. Later they reunite after Dharam's daughter, Naiya is exposed as the real culprit, who did it for the sake of inheritance.

Kokila accepts 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 and ask him to save Gopi from Krishna's evil plans and later the Modis were successful. Later, It is revealed that Jaggi is Parag and Urvashi's illegtimate son and revealed to be Ahem and Kinjal's half-brother. Jigar leaves for America.

Gopi marries Jaggi to save him from the traps of an evil girl Radhika. Gaura returns and pays Chanda, the surrogate mother of Meera and Dharam's twins, to create troubles for Modis and kills her when she attempts to expose her. Paridhi and Monica leave to America.

Eventually, Gaura's 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 gaven birth to a twins during Vidya's birth. Vidya and her long lost son Ramakant(Meera and Vidya's brother) her friend Antara Cheated Gopi by snatching baby boy from her twins.Ramakant has grown into a spoiled and selfish young man of Singapore. Gopi and Jaggi retrieve Ramakant who heavily troubles the Modis. Later, the Modis arrange his marriage to Sita.

Ramakant elopes with and marries Anita's daughter, Sameera who wants revenge from the Modis for Anita's death. She joins hands with Bhavani to ruin the Modi family. All the crimes of Bhavani and Sameera are revealed. Ramakant apologizes for his past mistakes to Modi family. In the final episode, Ramakant marries Sita and Gopi remembers her journey in Modi Bhawan ending the saga on a happy note.

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