Background
He is the son of veteran Bollywood actor Jeevan. Kiran Kumar is the son of actor Jeevan and is married to a former Gujarati actress Sushma Verma. Their son Shaurya, is in the process of being launched and has worked with David Dhawan, Abbas Mustan, Indra Kumar and Imtiaz Ali as an assistant director & his daughter Srishti runs a jewelry and clothing label called "Sush & Shish" with her mother and works in fashion as a stylist and consultant.
Kiran is a Kashmiri by birth and has ties with the royal family by virtue of being the grandson of the Vazir-e-Vazarat of Gilgit.
Career
He has worked on many Hindi, Rajasthani and Gujarati films. He has been cast as hero in many of the Gujarati movies. He attended Daly College, a boarding school in Indore, enrolled at Rural Delivery National College in Bandra, Mumbai, and later joined the Film and Institute of India (FTTI) in Pune.
He was known as "Dipak Dar" in FTII among his friends.
As a young boy, the film industry were drawn to him, partly because of his father"s association with lieutenant Kumar starred in Do Boond Pani in 1971 and went on to play the lead roles in several more movies.
Sunil Mehta"s Prem Kishan was his first television series. He has since established himself as a television star in the television industry in series such as: Zindagi, Ghutan, Sahil, Manzil, Grihasti, Katha Sagar, Aur Phir ek Din, Papa, Miilee, Chhajje Chajje Ka Pyar, and more.
At one point he was in the process of starting a production house called Sainama Visions, for which the pilot episode of Aashiana was filmed.