Kartik realises his love for Naira while Gayatri for Kartik. Kartik arrives in Udaipur as Naitik's employee where a love triangle is formed between him, Gayatri and Naira. Naira begins to accept her family except Akshara. She brings her back on the pretext of saving her orphanage. Akshara reaches there to fund the orphanage and finds Naira there. Naira lives in an orphanage in Rishikesh and has grown up as headstrong but insecure and arrogant where she meets Kartik Goenka, a young and positive man. On the other hand, fearing being wrongly blamed for her friend Sukanya's death, even by Akshara and scared of imprisonment, Naira flees from Udaipur.
Naksh breaks his wedding because of Tara's prenup. The family disowns Shaurya but later accepts him. It is revealed that Kuhu is the daughter of Shaurya and Sneha, Naitik's employee, due to an earlier extramarital affair. Due to her brother Sangram, Akshara falls into a pond and is saved by Naitik, but is temporarily blinded. Rashmi marries Sameer and her daughter Gayatri accepts him. Naksh returns to Udaipur and convinces Kaveri to forgive an innocent Akshara, and thus the family return and reunite. They relocate to Cape Town in South Africa and have been living there since. Naitik and Akshara along with their children move out. Soon, Muskaan and Alok marry while Mahendra Pratap dies and Kaveri blames Akshara for the same and banishes her. Naksh loves his sister Naira so much that he also bunks his school for her. 7 Months LaterĪkshara and Naitik have a daughter, Naira. Nikhil divorces Rashmi whereas Nandini gives birth to Anmol. Anshuman and Jasmeet as well as Naman and Karishma get married. Despite Naksh suffering from diabetes, he wins in a football match. Rajshekhar's remarriage to a divorcée Devyani who has two children, Naman and Muskaan. Soon, the family has to face Gayatri's death after which, Rashmi gives birth to a daughter whom she names Gayatri after her mother.
The entire family goes to their ancestral temple to celebrate Akshara and Naitik's wedding anniversary. He struggles to bond with mischievous Naksh. On Naksh's birthday, Naitik recovers from the coma. Four years laterĪkshara starts working in the family business. Naitik's sister, Nandini marries Mohit Agarwal and adopts Yash and Rashmi marries Nikhil. Parallel stories include Akshara's elder brother, Shaurya's love story with her best friend Varsha who marry and give birth to a daughter, Ananya. Naitik falls into a coma due to an accident. After marriage, they struggle to know each other and gradually begin to understand, support and love each other. SummaryĪkshara and Naitik, both from a large Marwari joint family based in Udaipur, have an arranged marriage. In March 2019, a spin-off, Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke, starring Rhea Sharma and Shaheer Sheikh was launched which ended in October 2020 completing 355 episodes. Produced by Rajan Shahi under Director's Kut Productions, it initially starred Hina Khan and Karan Mehra and currently stars Shivangi Joshi and Mohsin Khan. It premiered on 12 January 2009 and is the second longest running Indian television soap opera.
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai is an Indian television soap opera that airs on Star Plus and streams on Hotstar.