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My Friend Ganesha

2007 film by Rajiv S Ruia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ6945505 ↗
Source-derived summary

My Friend Ganesha is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language devotional drama film written and directed by Rajiv S Ruia and produced by Deepak Bhanushali, Manish Ruparel, Raman Trikha, Mitesh Mehta, and Ronak Bhagat. It stars Ahsaas Channa, Kiran Janjani, Shital Shah and Upasana Singh.

Plot

Ashu, an 8-year-old boy, feels lonely since his parents, Aditya and Aarti, don't have time for him, and he doesn't have any friends. As the story moves on, Lord 'Ganesha' becomes his friend, and together they resolve so many problems around and have a lot of fun.

Aarti and Aditya are too involved in their daily lives and hence cannot give much time to the boy, who always feels lonely. He would only get to be with the maid. On one rainy day, the boy saves a drowning mouse. He brings the small mouse home and tells the maid about it. She is very happy and tells the boy that he has saved Lord Ganesha's pet ride. Gangubai explains to him the full episode of Lord Ganesha & Mushakraj and also that he is his friend.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “My Friend Ganesha” as 2007 film by Rajiv S Ruia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Friend, Ganesha and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2007 film by Rajiv S Ruia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6945505. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “My Friend Ganesha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.