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Karan Singh Grover
Born	Karan Singh February 23, 1982 (1982-02-23) (age 27) India
Other name(s)	Karan Singh Dr. Armaan Karan Singh Grover
Occupation	Model, Actor, Television presenter
Years active	2004 - present
Spouse(s)	Shraddha Nigam (December 2nd, 2008 - present)

Karan Singh Grover (born February 23, 1982) is a popular Indian television actor and model. He began his television career in Ekta Kapoor's Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi on MTV India. He is most recognized for playing the role of Dr. Armaan Mallik in Dill Mill Gaye Season 1 on STAR One. ^[1][2]

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Television career 3 TV Shows and Appearences 4 Advertisements 5 Filmography 6 Awards 7 Controversies/Rumors 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Personal life

Karan was born in Delhi, India but later his family moved to Saudi Arabia, and he lived there twelve years. He spent his childhood and schooling days in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He did his schooling in International Indian School of Dammam. He had a band during his college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. In 2000 he moved back to Mumbai and pursued a degree in Hotel Management from IHM Mumbai and Dadar Catering College. ^[3] After completing his degree Karan moved to Muscat in Oman where his family was located and started working at the Sheraton Hotel as a marketing executive for about a year.^[3] He later returned to India to pursue his acting career and participated in the Gladrags Mega Model Manhunt contest in 2004. He started his acting career with Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi for Balaji Telefilms on MTV India after being selected from a nation wide talent hunt. Karan is from a Punjabi Sikh family hailing from Ambala, Haryana. Currently Karan's parents and his brother, stay in Delhi. Earlier, from 2004 to mid 2006, he dated Indian television actress Barkha Bisht, his co-star from Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi. They broke up in mid 2006. In April 2007, he started dating popular television actress Shraddha Nigam. On 2 December the couple got married in Goa at a Gurudwara.^[4] The whole ceremony was a private affair.Presently not staying with wife. Jaskaran Singh, who plays Uday in Miley Jab Hum Tum, is Karan's real-life cousin brother. Karan is a fitness freak and spends hours at the gym regularly. He loves tattoos and he has four of them.

[edit] Television career

Before starting his television acting career he did many modeling assignments, ramp shows, advertisements and hosted a radio show. Later he entered the Gladrags Mega Model Manhunt Contest in 2004 and ended up winning the award for the 'Most Popular Model.' ^[3] Then through a nationwide talent hunt contest by Balaji Telefilms he, along with five others, got selected to play leads in an MTV show Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi. Then followed Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag finally ending up in Kasautii Zindagii Kay in a negative role. After that, he did Solhah Singaarr on Sahara One and some short stints on C.I.D. and Parrivaar, before doing the role of Dr. Armaan Mallik in Dill Mill Gaye which made him an instant star. He anchored the STAR One reality television show Zara Nachke Dikha. He was the first runner-up in the dance reality show - Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 3. He is currently hosting Idea Rocks India on Colors TV.

[edit] TV Shows and Appearences

Year	Serial	Role	Channel	Notes
2004 - 2005	Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi	Arnav Deol	MTV India	Karan's debut serial. One of the lead characters of the show.
2005	Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag	Aman	Star Plus	Fantasy serial, he played the role for a little while.
2005 - 2006	Kasautii Zindagii Kay	Sharad Gupta	Star Plus	Initially a positive role opposite Jennifer Winget their characters get married and later his role turns negative.
2006 - 2007	Solhah Singaarr	Abhimanyu	Sahara One	Initially it was the role of the main lead opposite character of meera. But later the story changed meera got married. His character re-entered the show in mid 2007 again for a little while and then exited in August 2007.
2007	C.I.D.	Rahul and Sameer(Sid)	Sony Entertainment Television	Only in two episodes. One he played a victim and in the other he played the role of the killer.
2007	Parrivaar	Adhiraj Gill	Zee TV	Brief role only for about a week.
2007 - 2009	Dill Mill Gaye Season 1	Dr. Armaan Mallik	Star One	Male lead in Season 1
2008	Nach Baliye 3	Himself	Star Plus	Special dance Performance in one Episode with Shraddha Nigam
2008	Zara Nachke Dikha	Host	Star One	Co-hosted the show with Shweta Gulati
2009	Jhalak Dikhla Jaa	Himself	Sony Entertainment Television	Second runner-up in Season 3 with choreographer Nicole Alvares
2009	Idea Rocks India	Host	Colors TV	Co-hosts the show with Mansi Parekh

[edit] Advertisements

Year	Advertisement	Notes
2009	Rupa Frontline	Rupa Vests TV advertisement with Rajpal Yadav
2009	Indian Gem & Jewellery	Print Ads for Men's jewellery company

[edit] Filmography

Year	Movie	Role	Notes
2008	Bhram	friend of main lead	Released; Small Role
2008	I am 24	character role	Completed since 2008, Yet to Release; small comic role
2009	But Adi Loves Sanjana	2nd main lead	Shelved; due to recession, originally planned with Karan Singh Grover and Hussain Kuwajerwala as the two main leads.
2009	Bhaag Johny	Male lead	Under Production; produced by Vikram Bhatt, and directed by Deepak Tijori

[edit] Awards

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• Won the 'Most Popular Model' Award - Gladrags Manhunt Contest 2004 ^[3]
• The 'Most Promising Actor' Award Presented by The Kalakar Awards Foundation.

[edit] Controversies/Rumors

• In October 2009, it was reported that Karan and his wife Shraddha had parted ways and Karan had moved out of their flat in Versova, Mumbai.^[5]
• In November 2009, it was reported in the Mumbai Mirror^[6] that Dill Mill Gaye production house Cinevistaas had filed a complaint against Karan with CINTAA (Cine & TV Artistes Association) and would sue him to cover their losses of INR 2 crore as Karan spent much less time shooting than he was committed to, turning up late on the sets of Dill Mill Gaye.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• I’m flirtatious, says Karan, DNA India, 20 December 2007.
• Karan Singh Grover stays away from the cell phone, oneindia.in, 7 May 2008.
• Shraddha weds Karan Singh Grover, tellychakkar.com, 5 December 2008.
• Shraddha, Karan part ways, Times of India, 6 October 2009.
• Karan lands in legal trouble, Mumbai Mirror 11 November 2009.