wife; Samay and Shulabh's mother (2001-2006) Poonam Narula / Smita Bansal as Nivedita Basu Sengupta – Moloy and Mohini's second daughter; Rakhi, Anurag and Tapur's sister; Anupam's wife (2001-2006) Prachi Thakker as Rakhi Basu Sengupta – Moloy and Mohini's eldest daughter; Nivedita, Anurag and Tapur's sister; Praveen's wife; Diya's mother (2001-2007) Aparna Jaywant as Tapur Basu – Moloy and Mohini's youngest daughter; Anurag, Nivedita and Rakhi's sister (2001-2002) Manish Goel / Hiten Paintal as Anupam Sengupta – Chaini's second son; Praveen and Indraneel's brother; Nivedita's husband (2001-2003) / (2006) Manav Gohil / Tarun Khanna as Praveen Sengupta – Chaini's eldest son; Anupam and Indraneel's brother; Rakhi's husband; Diya's father (2001-2004) Ankur Nayyar / Pracheen Chauhan / Prem Agarwal / Vishal Puri / Aashish Kaul as Subroto Basu – Pranay and Yamini's elder son; Anirudh and Kajol's brother; Shivani's ex-husband; Komolika's husband (2001-2006) Tasneem Sheikh / Prerna Shah as Kajol Basu Sharma – Pranay and Yamini's daughter; Anirudh and Subroto's sister; Mahesh's wife (2001-2003) Rushad Rana as Anirudh Basu – Pranay and Yamini's younger son; Subroto and Kajol's brother (2002) Hitesh Kriplani as Samay Basu – Sanjay and Geeta's elder son; Shulabh's brother (2001-2005) Om Bhanushali as Shulabh Basu – Sanjay and Geeta's younger son; Samay's brother (2001-2005) Nandita Thakur as Veena Sharma – Rajesh's wife; Shekhar, Prerna, Shivani, Mitali and Mahesh's mother (2001-2008) Manoj Pandey as Shekhar Sharma – Rajesh and Veena's elder son; Prerna, Shivani, Mitali and Mahesh's brother; Suman's husband (2001-2004) Kusumit Sana as Shivani Sharma – Rajesh and Veena's second daughter; Prerna, Shekhar, Mitali and Mahesh's sister; Subroto's former wife (2001-2003) Kishwer Merchant as Mitali Sharma – Rajesh and Veena's youngest daughter; Prerna, Shekhar, Shivani and Mahesh's sister (2001-2004) Shivani Gosain as Suman Sharma – Shekhar's wife (2001-2004) Mahesh Pandey as Mahesh Sharma – Rajesh and Veena's younger son; Prerna, Shekhar, Shivani, and Mitali's brother; Kajol's husband (2001-2004) Anand Suryavanshi / Vivek Mushran / Nasir Khan as Vineet Khanna – Anurag's business partner and best friend; Madhvi's husband; Tanisha's adoptive father (2002-2006) Sonal Sehgal / Vaishnavi Mahant as Advocate Madhavi Bose Khanna – Menaka's sister; Vineet's wife; Tanisha's mother (2004-2006) Poonam Joshi as Jyoti – Prerna's best friend (2001-2002) Sikandar Kharbanda as Indraneel Sengupta – Chaini's youngest son; Anupam and Praveen's brother; Komolika's spy (2002-2008) Himani Shivpuri as Chaini Sengupta – Praveen, Anupam and Indraneel's mother (2002-2003) Mini Ribeiro as Uma Majumdar – Komolika's mother (2002) Prashant