Twenty-five years later, Tulsi remembers Savita with fondness as Mihir gifts her a luxury car on their 38th anniversary. Mihir and Tulsi's children Gautam, Shobha and Karan have all shifted abroad. Karan, Nandini and Shobha visit for the anniversary party. Tulsi had adopted and raised her late cousin Kesar and her husband Anupam's children—Angad, Paridhi, and Hrithik. Mihir's aunt, Gayatri, constantly berates Tulsi and questions her son Hemant's place in the family. Later, Mihir and Tulsi celebrate their anniversary, where Mihir openly expresses his immense love for her.
Trouble begins when Paridhi confesses about her love-interest Ranvijay, who lives in a chawl and Mihir initially disapproves of him. While Angad is also arrested on charges of hit and run. Enters Vrinda Gokhale, a girl from humble background who witnessed the actual accused Viren Mehta, a man who also beats his wife Sandhya Parekh. Vrinda helps Angad to prove his innocent by revealing about her brother Nitin being pressurised to falsely accuse Angad which helps her land a job in wing managed by Angad. Soon Noina Sarabhai, an NRI businesswoman and Mihir's college friend enters and through her Paridhi marries Ajay Parekh, brother of Sandhya, when Ranvijay ditches her after the shares of Mihir's company dropped and the Parekh family has Viren arrested for troubling Angad and assaulting Sandhya.
Unbeknownst to everyone, Noina always loved Mihir one-sided which Paridhi learns of and plots to separate her parents by fueling to Noina's hidden feelings. Meanwhile Ranvijay reconnects with Paridhi and to be with him she falsely accuses Ajay and his family in domestic violence case leading to their arrests. But Tulsi comes to know about it and testifies in their support just like she killed her son Ansh to protect Nandini. Noina's niece Mitali develops a crush on Angad and fixes her alliance with him while Vrinda's marriage is fixed to Ranvijay's abusive friend Suhas. Angad and Vrinda's friendship blossoms into love while Suhas and Mitali try to plot against them. Vrinda finally breaks the alliance when Suhas tries to molest her and Angad does so when he comes to know about Mitali's plot about fooling her friends by pretending that she is possessed to escape her gambling loan. However Mitali tries to blackmail him into marriage, leading him and Vrinda to elope and be banished from Shantiniketan.
Noina becones obsessed and plots against Mihir and in one such plot, she fakes suicide after Angad's marriage and a drunk Mihir saves her and spends night with her. While family maid Manjuri Sinha aka Munni falls for Hrithik and starts chatting with him as "Munmun". After the truth reveal, Tulsi sends her to hostel sponsoring her further education. A guilt-ridden Mihir tranfers his property to Tulsi's name while his brother Kiran repeatedly encourages him for a divorce. Tulsi and Mihir's attempt to stop Paridhi and Ranvijay's marriage fails when Tulsi comes to know about Noina and Mihir and leaves home leaving behind the whole property and a letter ensuring the family about her safety and shifts to ancestral home of Amba in Kutch, which she transferred on her name before dying and vows to start off her life again from there.
Six years later, Tulsi has established her handloom textile start-up Bandhej co-operative Business in Amba's ancestral home with several poor girls while Noina has taken control of Shantiniketan and made life of Gayatri, Daksha, family cook and other older members of family miserable which made Gayatri repent. Mihir yearns for Tulsi but doesn't allow Noina to cross her boundaries outside professional meetings and taunts her for her plotting against Tulsi and family. Paridhi has turned to new leaf and repents her behaviour with Tulsi as Ranvijay actually beats her and is careless for their daughter Garima too while Hrithik is also in a loveless marriage with Mitali and has a daughter, Timsi, whom she ignores. While quarrels have become a routine in Shantiniketan, Angad and Vrinda happily inhabit a chawl with their twins, Akshay and Madhavi.
Cast
Main
Smriti Irani as Tulsi Virani: Matriarch of the Viranis; Mihir's estranged wife; Director of Govardhan Virani Group of Industries; founder of Bandhej co-operative Business (2025–present)
Amar Upadhyay as Mihir Virani: Partriarch of the Viranis; Owner of Govardhan Virani Group of Industries; Tulsi's estranged husband; Noina's business partner (2025–present)
Recurring
Hiten Tejwani as Karan Virani: Mandira and Mihir's son (2025–present)
Gauri Pradhan as Nandini Virani: Karan's wife (2025–present)
Ritu Chaudhary as Shobha Virani: Tulsi and Mihir's daughter (2025–present)
Jiten Lalwani as Kiran Virani: Savita and Mansukh's younger son; Mihir's brother (2025–present)
Shakti Anand as Advocate Hemant Virani: Jamnadas and Gayatri's son (2025–present)
Prachi Kowli as Pooja Virani: Hemant's wife; Sahil and Tarun's mother (2025–present)
Sandeep Baswana as Sahil Virani: Hemant and Pooja's elder son (2025–present)
Ketaki Dave as Daksha Virani: Raksha's sister (2025–present)
Rohit Suchanti as Angad Virani: Anupam and Kesar's elder son; Tulsi and Mihir's adopted son; Vrinda's husband; Akshay and Madhavi's father (2025–present)
Tanisha Mehta as Vrinda Gokhale Virani: Malti and Parameshwar's daughter; Tulsi and Mihir's daughter-in-law; Angad's wife; Akshay and Madhavi's mother (2025–present)
Shagun Sharma as Paridhi "Pari" Virani: Anupam and Kesar's daughter; Ajay's ex–wife, Ranvijay's wife; Garima's mother (2025–present)
Adhira Chavan as child Paridhi (2025)
Aman Gandhi as Hrithik Virani: Anupam and Kesar's younger son; Tulsi and Mihir's adopted son; Mitali's husband; Timsi's father (2025–present)
Sohil Singh Jhuti as Parth Virani: Karan and Tanya's son (2025–present)
Jia Narigara as Samaira Virani: Karan and Nandini's daughter (2025)
Samar Birje as Ronak Virani: Karan and Nandini's son (2025)
Nirvaan Anandd as Ajay Parekh: Indira and Naveen's son; Paridhi's ex-husband (2025–present)
Sanjivani Sathe as Indira Parekh: Naveen's wife (2025)
Hemang Palan as Naveen Parekh: Mihir's business partner; Indira's husband (2025)
Shrashti Maheshwari as Sandhya Parekh: Indira and Naveen's elder daughter (2025)
Ami Joshi as Priya Parekh: Indira and Naveen's younger daughter (2025)
Kunj Anand as Nitin Gokhale: Parmeshwar and Malti's son (2025–present)
Bhavna Rokade as Supriya Gokhale: Nitin’s wife (2025–present)
Bharati Achrekar as Malti Gokhale: Nitin and Vrinda's mother (2025–present)
Saarth Kumar as Gopu Gokhale: Nitin and Supriya's son (2025–present)
Barkha Bisht as Noina Sarabhai: Mihir’s college friend, one-sided obsessive lover and business partner; Suchitra's sister (2025–present)
Prachi Singh as Manjuri "Munni" Sinha: Maid of the Viranis; Hrithik's friend, one-sided lover and online love-interest under the alias Munmun (2025–present)
Ankit Bhatia as Viren Mehta: Sandhya's ex-husband (2025)
Vishal Nayak as Vikram: Mihir's friend and colleague (2025)
Summit Jaiswal / Tanish Mahendru as Ranvijay: Paridhi's husband; Garima's father (2025) / (2025–present)
Sandeep Patil as Suhas: Vrinda's ex-fiancé (2025)
Ashna Kishore as Shalini: Ranvijay's ex-wife (2025)
Medha Muskan as Ginni: Maid of the Viranis (2025)
Swati Sharma as Vaishnavi: A girl who works in and leads Bandhej co-operative Business with Tulsi (2025–present)
Kanak Arora as Garima aka "Garu": Paridhi and Ranvijay's daughter (2025–present)
Ansh Saini as Akshay Virani: Angad and Vrinda's son; Madhavi's twin brother (2025–present)
Swara Kadam as Madhavi Virani: Angad and Vrinda's daughter; Akshay's twin sister (2025–present)
Saavi Jain as Timsi Virani: Hrithik and Mitali's daughter (2025–present)
Guest appearance
Apara Mehta as Savita Virani: Former matriarch of the Viranis; Mansukh's wife; (2025)
Bill Gates to promote Bill and Melinda Gates foundation (2025)[6]
Astrologer Janardhan Dhurve (2025)
Shruhad Goswami (2025)
Production
Development
Ekta Kapoor, the producer of the show, plans to infuse the story with a modern sensibility to resonate with the younger audience.[7] The first promo featuring Smriti Irani was released by Star Plus on 7 July 2025. She made it clear that season two would not chase TRPs but aim to impact, entertain, probe thoughts, and inspire while raising important questions, sparking conversations, and standing out in a time dominated by visual gimmicks.[8]
Sumanta Bose, Head of Cluster, Entertainment, JioStar said, "It's a show which is just not only about entertainment. It was a character who fought patriarchy, who taught how to do right parenting. So, it was so ahead of its time and the new storyline that we have embarked on creating, it's going to reshape the way India looks at content."[9]
In December 2025, the show introduced a six-year time leap, depicting Tulsi and Mihir living separately after the revelation of Mihir and Noina's extramarital affair.[10][11]
In October 2025, it was confirmed that Sakshi Tanwar and Kiran Karmarkar would reprise their iconic roles as Parvati Agarwal and Om Agarwal from Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary in a special crossover with Kyunki...[17][18] The crossover aimed to finally resolve the long-standing season one cliffhanger, revealing Baa’s last wish – for her property to go to Tulsi through Parth.[19]
In October 2025, Bill Gates also made his Indian television debut on Kyunki... to promote the Gates Foundation and raise awareness about child and maternal health,[20] in connection with a baby shower ceremony of Tulsi’s servant’s daughter in the show.[21]
Reception
Ratings
The show recorded over 1.659 billion minutes of watch time across television and streaming platforms.[22] The show received 31.1 million television viewers in just four days. Out of which 15.4 million viewers had tuned in for the premiere episode alone, according to a press release by the channel.[23] The channel added, "The reboot season also witnessed 17,300 mentions across social media platforms."[24]
The latest count makes Smriti Irani led Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2 the highest-rated fiction launch across general entertainment channels in recent times and the biggest-ever GEC fiction debut across both television and digital in India, the release added.[25] According to BARC, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2 recorded a 2.5 TVR on its launch day in the HSM Urban market (MF15–50 ABC demographic).[26]
Critical response
India Today noted that the first episode serves as "a nostalgic trip down memory lane, bringing back iconic characters and moments without much new development."[27]
Some critics argued that the reboot relied too heavily on nostalgia rather than offering fresh storylines. India Today observed that while it successfully revived iconic characters, the premiere "brought little new development beyond sentimentality."[28]Mid-Day similarly noted that the show leaned on "sanskaar and kalesh" tropes without significant innovation, framing it as a sentimental but formulaic return.[29]NDTV highlighted that while Smriti Irani’s performance brought gravitas, the show risked "rehashing themes already explored two decades ago" instead of adapting to contemporary family dynamics.[30]
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