TV Shows With Gaurav Khanna: Complete List, Bigg Boss Win, Wife, Age & Net Worth

Category	Details
Full Name	Gaurav Khanna
Age	44 years (born 11 December 1981)
Birthplace	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Education	MBA in Marketing
Profession	Actor, Producer, Reality TV Star
Years Active	2005–present
Wife	Akanksha Chamola (TV actress)
Marriage Date	24 November 2016
Wife Age	Mid-30s (born 18 January 1991, per IMDb) [citation needed — verify with a recent interview]
Children	None as of 2026 — the couple has openly said they’ve chosen not to have kids
Father	Vinod Khanna, a businessman/exporter
Mother	Homemaker (name reported variously; needs verification)
Net Worth	Estimated ₹12–31 crore (figures vary by source) [citation needed]
Famous For	CID, Anupamaa, Bigg Boss 19, Celebrity MasterChef India
Gaurav Khanna Bigg Boss Season	Season 19 (2025) — Winner

So, Who Exactly Is Gaurav Khanna?

If you’ve spent even ten minutes flipping through Hindi television over the last two decades, you’ve run into Gaurav Khanna without even realizing it. He’s the guy who played a cop with a permanent poker face in CID, the guy who made an entire nation swoon as Anuj Kapadia in Anupamaa, and — more recently — the guy who walked into the Bigg Boss house as a “quiet dark horse” and walked out holding the trophy.

Born on 11 December 1981 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Gaurav Khanna wasn’t always destined for the screen. He actually did an MBA in Marketing and worked as a marketing manager at an IT firm before acting even entered the picture. He started small — television commercials, a blink-and-miss role in Bhabhi, a supporting part in Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan — and slowly built himself into one of the most dependable leading men on Indian TV.

The Complete List of TV Shows With Gaurav Khanna

 Below is a full, honest walk-through of the TV Shows With Gaurav Khanna that actually made him a household name — in the order he did them.

1. Bhabhi (2004–2005) — The First Step

This is where it all began. Gaurav Khanna’s first-ever TV appearance was a small role here, and honestly, nobody watching in 2004 would have guessed this guy would one day win Bigg Boss. But every leading man needs a first scene, and this was his.

2. Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan

His second project, and another step up the ladder. Small shows, small roles, but each one taught him how a TV set actually runs — which, as any actor will tell you, is a completely different beast from doing ad shoots.

3. Meri Doli Tere Angana (2007) — His First Lead Role

This is the real starting gun. Meri Doli Tere Angana gave Gaurav Khanna his first lead role, and it’s the show that convinced producers he could actually carry a series, not just support one.

4. Jeevan Saathi – Humsafar Zindagi Ke

Playing Neil Fernandez here, Khanna started to build the “reliable romantic hero” image that would define much of his career for the next decade.

5. Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam (2009–2010) — The Breakout

As Abeer Bajpayee, this romantic drama is widely considered his real breakout. Suddenly, Gaurav Khanna wasn’t just “that actor from a small show” — he was a name people actively searched for.

6. CID — Inspector Kavin

If you ask anyone above the age of 25 in India to name a Gaurav Khanna show, half of them will say CID before anything else. Playing Inspector Kavin on India’s longest-running crime drama put him in front of a genuinely massive, loyal audience for years. This role alone cemented him as a trustworthy face for Indian television.

7. Prem Ya Paheli – Chandrakanta

Here, Khanna played Prince Virendra Singh in this fantasy-drama adaptation, proving he could handle period costume drama just as easily as modern romance — a versatility a lot of TV actors never actually get to show.

8. Tere Bin (2016) — Dr. Akshay Sinha

Playing a doctor on-screen right as he was falling in love off-screen (this is around when he met his future wife) — sometimes life really does write better scripts than television does.

9. Anupamaa (2021–2024) — The Role That Made Him a National Name

This is the big one. As Anuj Kapadia in Anupamaa, Gaurav Khanna became arguably the most-loved leading man on Indian TV in the 2020s. The show was a certified ratings juggernaut, and Khanna’s chemistry with the lead earned him fan nicknames like “national crush.” This role won him the Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role — a huge deal in the industry. He exited the show in December 2024 after roughly three years, closing what many still call his defining chapter.

10. Celebrity MasterChef India (2025) — Winner

His first-ever reality show, and he didn’t just participate — he won it. As the only vegetarian contestant, and someone who later revealed he’s color-blind (a detail that makes plating a dish that much harder), his win felt earned rather than lucky.

11. Bigg Boss 19 (2025) — Winner

The crown jewel of his reality-TV run. Gaurav Khanna entered Bigg Boss 19 as reportedly the highest-paid contestant of the season, played it calm and steady the entire way through, and walked away as the winner — dedicating the win to “the common man” and his fans.

12. Khatron Ke Khiladi 15 (2026)

Fresh off his Bigg Boss win, Gaurav Khanna signed on for Rohit Shetty’s stunt-based reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi 15 alongside names like Rubina Dilaik and Karan Wahi. It turned out to be his toughest reality outing yet — he took a brutal pellet-gun stunt in his stride, but a high-altitude bridge-jumping elimination task ended in a shoulder/elbow injury that forced him out of the competition in August 2026.