He was born on 23 February 1982 in New Delhi, India. He has one brother younger to him. The actor did his schooling in Dammam, Saudi Arabia and then got a degree of Hotel management from IHM Mumbai. Karan was married to actress Shraddha Nigam on 2nd December 2008. but the marriage didn’t go well and ended in divorce just after ten months. Then he married his co-star of serial Dill Mill Gayye, Jennifer Winget on 9 April 2012. but again due to some issues, they got separated in November 2014.