Today is Tejasswi Prakash's 33rd birthday — and for the fifth consecutive year, the internet belongs to Karan Kundrra and the woman he calls his princess. What makes June 10 the most romantic date on Indian television's calendar is not just a birthday. It is a ritual.
There is a quiet kind of loyalty in the way Karan Kundrra marks June 10. No grand press statements, no carefully managed PR moment — just a man, a photograph, and a caption that tells the same story it has told since 2022: that he is deeply, unambiguously in love. Every year on Tejasswi Prakash's birthday, the actor turns into something closer to a poet than a television personality. And the internet, reliably, loses its mind.
Today, Tejasswi Prakash Wayangankar turns 33 — and the occasion arrives at one of the most significant moments in the couple's five-year relationship. The two are now publicly engaged, freshly off a Netflix debut together, and are, by all accounts, closer to a wedding than ever before. June 10 in 2026 is not just a birthday. It is, by now, a marker on the TejRan timeline.
The Day That Started a Tradition
The first June 10 that mattered was 2022 — Tejasswi's first birthday as a publicly declared couple, and the one that set the template for everything that followed. Karan took to social media to share a set of photographs from a private yacht in Goa, captioning the post simply: "Happy Birthday Princess." In the first image, Tejasswi was beaming, holding a large bunch of red roses. In the others, Karan was lifting her up and kissing her — photographs so unguarded that fans flooded the comment section with declarations that he was the best boyfriend in the world.
It was, on the surface, a birthday post. In practice, it was a love letter — one that established June 10 as the day Karan Kundrra reminds everyone, loudly and without embarrassment, exactly how he feels.
"You guys deserve the world." — A fan comment on Karan's first birthday post for Tejasswi, June 2022
Who Are They, Really?
Before the hashtag and the fan edits, there were two careers. Karan Kundrra, born October 11, 1984, made his acting debut with Ekta Kapoor's Kitani Mohabbat Hai in 2009 and has since become one of the highest-paid television actors in India. Over fifteen years, he built a reputation as a performer with range — and, more recently, as a host with a natural command of the room, whether on MTV Roadies, Bigg Boss 15, or MTV Splitsvilla 16, which he has been hosting since January 2026.
Tejasswi Prakash is best known for portraying Ragini Gadodia in Swaragini and Pratha Gujral in Naagin 6 — the latter becoming the longest-running instalment of the supernatural franchise. An Indian Television Academy Award and Indian Telly Award recipient, she has methodically expanded her footprint: she finished as the second runner-up on Celebrity MasterChef India in 2025, and made her OTT debut in February 2026 with the psychological thriller Psycho Saiyaan on Amazon MX Player.
TejRan At a Glance
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Bigg Boss 15: Where It All Began
Their story has the structure of a slow-burn romance that Indian television had not quite seen before — not because it was dramatic, but because it was so visible, so unscripted in a scripted environment. Their fame grew significantly when they appeared on Bigg Boss 15, which became their first foray into reality television before Desi Bling. Inside that house, Karan fell for Tejasswi with an openness that the cameras caught every frame of. She won the season. He placed third. And what came out of that house was, against most odds, a relationship that held.
What followed was a relationship conducted almost entirely in public — birthday trips, award show appearances, viral Instagram moments — and yet it never felt performed. Perhaps that is the most remarkable thing about TejRan: they are one of Indian television's most-watched couples precisely because they seem indifferent to being watched.
The Proposal That Stopped the Internet
If June 10 is TejRan's quietest milestone, May 2026 was its loudest. Karan Kundrra proposed to Tejasswi Prakash on the reality show Desi Bling, a Netflix series that premiered on May 20, 2026. The proposal took place in front of the entire cast, planned as a lavish surprise: giant "Will You Marry Me?" letters were displayed across the water as Tejasswi walked onto the set. Karan then went down on one knee and proposed in Punjabi.
Tejasswi appeared emotional during the moment, saying, "I am shivering." A social media video of the scene was widely shared online, and Karan's proposal — including the ring and her overwhelmed reaction — became one of the most talked-about moments from the show.
"I am shivering." — Tejasswi Prakash, upon Karan Kundrra's proposal on Desi Bling, May 2026
Netflix's Desi Bling, May 20, 2026 · Sourced via The Indian EYE
The Wedding Question
Since that proposal, the question everyone has been asking is when. Speaking on Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa's podcast in November 2025, Tejasswi said: "Haan, aise bol toh rahe hain. Haan matlab aisi baatein toh hum kar rahe hain, but then let's see" — acknowledging they were talking about marriage while leaving a firm date open. Karan, meanwhile, had reportedly proposed once before, right after Bigg Boss 15 ended, only to be gently advised by Tejasswi's mother that they should take more time.
They took the time. They are now engaged. And on this birthday, June 10, 2026, the 33-year-old faces the most anticipated chapter of her public life — as a fiancée, as a Netflix star, and as the woman Karan Kundrra publicly falls for, every single year on this date.
Wishing a very Happy Birthday to the gorgeous Tejasswi Prakash.
— Times Fashion Week (@TimesFashionWk) June 10, 2026
Taking centre stage as the showstopper for French Avenue presents Rajdeep Ranawat at Bombay Times Fashion Week April 2026, she owned every inch of that runway with grace, and an undeniable star power. pic.twitter.com/E01m85YHgf
TejRan Relationship Timeline
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Why TejRan Endures
It is worth asking, genuinely, why this particular couple has maintained such a hold on a fandom that is notoriously difficult to sustain. Indian television has no shortage of on-screen romances that dissolve when the cameras stop rolling. TejRan, by contrast, seems to get louder every year.
What the TejRan Fandom Actually Stands For
- A love story that began on a reality show and outlasted the season
- A couple who show affection without making it a brand exercise
- Equal careers — she won BB15; he built his own empire in hosting and drama
- Consistent, public birthday tributes every June 10 since 2022
- A proposal made not in a hotel suite but in front of the world, on Netflix
Part of the answer is that Tejasswi has established herself as a genuine multi-platform presence — from Naagin 6 to Celebrity MasterChef to OTT thrillers to Laughter Chefs Season 3 on JioHotstar — while Karan has evolved from romantic lead to one of television's most recognisable hosts. They are not riding each other's success. They are building parallel ones.
And then, every June 10, Karan Kundrra steps away from all of it and simply tells the internet: here is the woman I love. Here is why.
What Comes Next
With the engagement now on record and Desi Bling marking Tejasswi's Netflix debut alongside Karan, the next milestone the TejRan fandom is watching for is a wedding. Tejasswi did not rule out 2026, and the conversations between the couple have clearly been happening. Whether June 10 eventually becomes a wedding anniversary too — or whether it remains, as it has been, Karan Kundrra's annual public act of falling in love — is something only the two of them know.
But today, as every June 10 since 2022, the answer to the title of this piece is not rhetorical. It is a pattern, a record, a documented truth: every June 10, Karan Kundrra falls in love with Tejasswi Prakash all over again. And five years in, the rest of us are still watching.
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