Soon it is revealed that Abhimanyu's half-brother, Neil is actually Harshvarshan's son from an extra-marital affair and Manjari brought him home through adoption to give him motherly and family's love.

6 years later, Akshara lives with her son, Abhir, and Abhinav in Kasauli while Abhimanyu has taken fatherly responsibilities for Aarohi's daughter Ruhi.

Eventually, Kaveri agrees to get Armaan and Abhira married but starts creating challenges for her along with Sanjay and Ruhi amidst marriage rituals.

[13] In January 2010, a sequence was shot without any dialogue, with only background music used during dramatic scenes when the Singhania family learn that the character Akshara motivates the love between her sister-in-law Nandhini and Naitik's friend Mohit, against them.

During November 2014, lead Hina Khan could not attend shooting for a few days due to her other work schedules and the track was altered for her absence.

[22] On 18 October 2021, The show took a leap of 8 years where Sirat was shown a single mother to Aarohi and Akshara while Kartik was abroad to drop teenaged Kairav and Vansh to hostels.

[24] On 6 November 2023, show took a leap of 22 years after Aarohi, Abhimanyu and Abhir's deaths and started focussing on Akshara's daughter, Abhira, Armaan and grown up Ruhi.

[26] In April 2016, both Hina Khan and Karan Mehra refused to play the role as in-laws after the on-going wedding track of their onscreen son Naksh and Tara.

[27] During January 2017, at the filming of pre-wedding sequences of the lead characters Naira and Kartik, fire broke out on the sets due to a short circuit.

[31] However, with the increased ratings, becoming most watched Hindi GEC for few weeks in urban, her role was extended with her exit in January 2020 while in between she took a break in October and re-entered in November 2019.

In March 2024, after the termination of Shehzada Dhami and Pratiksha Honmukhe, Shahi stated: "I have had a lot of controversies with actors, but I feel nobody is above the show, not even the producer.

[41] Speaking about it producer Rajan Shahi said, "Karan refused to be a part of the show a day and a half prior to shooting the promo.

[8] In 2012, Sanjay Gandhi playing Mahendra quit due to the issues between him and his co-actors Sonali Verma and Sandeep Mehta who was then replaced by Abhijit Lahiri.

[72] Shaurya Shah, who entered in June 2019 as Kairav, quit the following month due to health issues, and was immediately replaced by Tanmay Rishi.

[75] As a result of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, actors younger than ten years of age were prohibited from performing on set, so when shooting resumed in June 2020, Tanmay Rishi Shah and Maaz Champ shot their sequences from home.

[76] However, due to the requirement of characters Kairav and Vansh on the sets, they were replaced by Aarambh Trehan Sehgal and Siddharth Dubey in October 2020.

[78] In October 2021, Mohsin Khan playing Kartik left the show as well as child actors Aarambh Trehan Sehgal and Siddharth Dubey.

[81] In February 2022, Kashish Rai joined the cast as Anand and Mahima's elder daughter Anisha Birla,[82] and she quit the following month.

[86] In December 2022, Sharan Anandani playing Vansh Goenka quit the series and said, "My character never had any growth since long and was unhappy with tracks as I can't remain silent actor standing in background at this stage of my career".

[87][88] In the same month, Paras Priyadarshan who portrayed Neil Birla quit the series as "he didn't wanted to play role of a father owing to the following leap in the show".

[95] Due to upcoming leap Karishma Sawant, Harshad Chopda and Shreyansh Kaurav portraying Aarohi, Abhimanyu and Abhir left the series in October 2023 with storyline showing their deaths[96][97] while Pranali Rathod and Hera Mishra were replaced by Preeti Amin and Pratiksha Honmukhe as old Akshara and grown-up Ruhi respectively.

[100] Shivam Khajuria too joined as Rohit Poddar opposite Honmukhe[101] while Anita Raj, Shruti Ulfat and Sandeep Rajora were cast as Armaan's grandmother and parents respectively.

[107][108] In July 2024, Shivam Khajuria who portrayed Rohit Poddar got replaced by Romiit Raaj, who was cast opposite Sadhwani for the second time post Rajan Shahi's Baatein Kuch Ankahee Si.

[149][150][151] In 2017, the show was dubbed in Malayalam under the title Akkareyanente Maanasam 2 on Asianet Plus[152] and also in Tamil as Uravugal Thodarkadhai 2 on Star Vijay Super[153] from episode 2075, but were discontinued within few months.

A special segment named Rishton Ka Utsav[154] aired from 26 November 2018 to 5 December 2018 where Kartik and Naira organize a unique festival which brings all generations with most of the family members of the show through all these years come together and celebrate their reunion.

[61] The cast of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai participated as a team in the musical game show Ravivaar With Star Parivaar.

[157] Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai emerged as the winner of the show winning the trophy and a prize money of 10 lac rupees.

Not that it has not resorted to TRP gimmicks like misunderstanding, pregnancy and miscarriage to come out of its lows, but the show has chronicled post-marriage journey of an arranged married couple quite well".

[160] Praising the two shows Bidaii and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai of Rajan Shahi's Director's Kut Production as game changers of Starplus which do not have excessive camera moves and mother-in-law-daughter-in-law melodramas unlike previously aired dramas, The Times of India stated, "The shows adequately highlighted the quintessential emotions with loads of romanticism and simplicity in story-telling".

[162] Shoma Munshi in her book Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television said the show has "simplicity and highly emotional content" and was noted for placing female characters in the historical tradition of a large joint family.