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Ratan Ka Rishta

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ7295450 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ratan Ka Rishta, also known as Swayamvar Season 3, was a marriage reality television show in India on Imagine TV. It was the third season of the Swayamvar series after Swayamwar and Rakhi Ka Swayamwar. The bride of the season was Ratan Raajputh. It premiered on 30 May 2011.

A mobile video game based on the television show was released by UTV Indiagames, titled Ratan Ka Rishta.

Winner

Abhinav Sharma, a Software Engineer from Uttranchal won the show. The couple got engaged in 2011 but broke off their engagement due to numerous incompatibilities, including long-distance issues and differing priorities.

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“Ratan Ka Rishta” enters the record as television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ratan, Rishta and television can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ratan, Rishta and television.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ratan Ka Rishta” 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.