wife; Meera, Vidya and Ramakant's mother. She returned to the show again in June 2022 to help Gehna (2020, 2022) Rupal Patel as Kokila Desai Modi: Revati's elder daughter; Praful, Paresh and Jigna's sister; Parag's wife; Ahem and Kinjal's mother; Jaggi's step-mother; Meera, Vidya and Ramakant's grandmother. She is the strict and dominating matriarch of the Modi family (2020) Mohammad Nazim as Ahem Modi: Parag and Kokila's son; Kinjal's brother; Jaggi's half-brother; Gopi's first husband; Meera, Vidya and Ramakant's father; . He was assumed dead but he survived and only lost his memory as Gehna saved and took care of him. Later, he regains his memory and unites with his family (2020) Jaggi Modi: Urvashi and Parag's son; Kokila's step-son; Ahem and Kinjal's half-brother; Gopi's second husband; Meera, Vidya and Ramakant's uncle and step-father. He married her after Ahem's supposed demise (2020) Manish Arora as Parag Modi: Janko and Tolaram's younger son; Chirag's brother; Kokila's husband; Ahem, Jaggi and Kinjal's father; Meera, Vidya and Ramakant's grandfather (2020) Swati Shah as Hetal Modi: Chirag's wife; Kokila's cousin turned elder sister-in-law, Jigar's mother. She is sweet and sensible, and always thinks about the welfare of Modi's (2020) Vandana Vithlani as Urmila Shah: Jitu's wife; Rashi's mother; Gopi's aunt (2020) Production Development In July 2020, Devoleena Bhattacharjee signed the contract for the new season with the production under plans since a year before. Amidst 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. Filming Based on the backdrop of Surat, in Gujarat, the series is completely filmed at the Ramdev Studio in Naigaon. On 14 April 2021, shooting halted due to COVID-19 precautions set by Uddhav Thackeray, the chief minister of Maharashtra. On 18 and 19 April, the entire team of Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2 shifted their base to Agra and continued shooting there until early June. Release The series premiered on 19 October 2020 at 9.00 pm time slot on StarPlus. Due to a decrease in ratings the show was shifted to the early 6:00 pm time slot from 30 May 2022,