Kaira Anu is the reality television contestant who won MTV Splitsvilla X6 with Kushal Tanwar, known as Gullu, on 16 May 2026, sharing a Rs 20 lakh prize. She then joined Rise and Fall Season 2 in September, spoke on the show about feeling betrayed by Gullu, and was evicted in week 3.
The public record on Kaira Anu is strong on her two shows and on what happened with Gullu, because both were covered week by week. It is thin on her personal background: widely repeated details about her age, country and profession come only from profile sites, and they are flagged as unconfirmed below.
Who is Kaira Anu?
Kaira Anu is best known from two reality shows in 2026. She won MTV Splitsvilla X6, also billed as Splitsvilla 16 or Pyaar Ya Paisa, as Gullu’s partner. Four months later she entered Rise and Fall Season 2, the Prime Video show hosted by Virender Sehwag, as one of its 15 launch contestants.
Profile sites describe her as a dental graduate who moved abroad as a teenager, and several print an exact age. None of the national news reports we read on her two shows confirms her age, her date of birth, her home country or a dental degree. Those details are left out here until a named outlet or Kaira herself states them.
Kaira Anu on Splitsvilla X6: the win with Gullu
Gullu and Kaira were crowned the winning couple of Splitsvilla X6 on 16 May 2026 and took home Rs 20 lakh, according to the IANS report of the finale. They beat Yogesh Rawat and Ruru Thakur in the final round. The season was hosted by Karan Kundrra and Sunny Leone and streamed on MTV and JioHotstar.
Four couples reached the semi-final stage, Free Press Journal reported: Gullu and Kaira, Yogesh and Ruru, Sorab Bedi and Niharika Tiwari, and Tayne De Villiers and Soundharya Shetty. The paper added that nobody took the Rs 5 lakh briefcase in the semi-finals, so the prize was not reduced. India TV listed Niharika and Sorab in third place.
Kaira told IANS that the win “with Gullu feels unreal”, and that knowing “the audience chose us for the first time makes this win even more special.” Gullu said Kaira had supported him from the first day and used to tell him during tasks that she wanted to win for him. Another contestant from the same season, Akanksha Choudhary, has her own profile on this site.
Fans who watched the season were divided on her, and the split shows in the comments. A critic in January, early in the run, wrote:
“Mean girl vibes but good for a character on show, very cunning but won’t be friends with someone like this in rea life”
– r/splitsvillaMTV, January 2026 (11 upvotes)
By April, when she was seen socializing with a former rival after an episode, the tone in the same community had softened:
“Kaira anuska are lowkey the only smart ones like the show is over no point hating people”
– r/splitsvillaMTV, April 2026 (24 upvotes)
Kaira Anu and Gullu: from winning couple to “betrayal”
The first signs of trouble came before the finale aired. Free Press Journal reported on 28 April 2026 that fans had noticed the pair unfollowing each other on Instagram, and that Gullu later followed her again while she did not follow back. The paper stressed that neither had addressed it. Pinkvilla revived the breakup talk on 11 June after more unfollowing.
Kaira spoke about it herself when Rise and Fall Season 2 began. In her introduction, Bollywood Shaadis reported on 26 September, she said: “Maine dil khol ke pyaar kiya tha… Mujhe dhokha bhi poore dil se hi mila.” In English, that is roughly: “I loved with an open heart… and I was betrayed with my whole heart too.” She said the experience had left her with trust issues.
Eleven days later she described the bond differently. Talking with fellow contestant Manish Kashyap, she said Gullu was still a friend “from the heart” and that they had never dated, Free Press Journal reported on 7 October. Her phrase was “woh boyfriend jaisa tha”, meaning he was “like a boyfriend”. She said she could not give him the boyfriend label after knowing him for only a few months.
Both statements are hers, made on camera, and they do not fit neatly together. What the record supports is narrower than most headlines: the two won as a couple, drifted apart publicly within weeks, and Kaira has described feeling betrayed without saying, on the record we read, what happened. Gullu was inside the Bigg Boss 20 house during her Rise and Fall run. His side of the story, and his time on that show, are in our profile of Kushal Tanwar (Gullu) and on our Bigg Boss contestants tracker.
Kaira Anu on Rise and Fall Season 2
Rise and Fall Season 2 premiered on 26 September 2026 with 15 contestants, split between Rulers in a penthouse and Workers in a basement. After the first power contest, The Hans India listed Kaira among the seven Workers in the Basement, alongside Niharika Tiwari, a fellow Splitsvilla X6 semi-finalist, and Gautam Gulati.
She survived the season’s first vote, held at the end of week 1. NewsBytes reported on 4 October that she was one of four contestants in the bottom that week, and that audience votes saved her and Manish Kasyap before the others voted out content creator Anish Bhagat. In mid-October three wild cards arrived, including actor Rishabh Jaiswal.
Her run ended in week 3, and Filmibeat reported on 15 October that Kaira and Raj Grover were eliminated together, while Kajal Raghwani survived on the Rulers’ votes. The season went on to a finale on 6 November, which Shehzad Poonawalla won. Every exit of the season is dated in our Rise and Fall Season 2 contestants list.
What to weigh before trusting a Kaira Anu profile
Three details in circulation deserve caution, starting with her age and birth date. The “Kaira Splitsvilla age” search is popular, and profile pages answer it with exact figures, yet none we checked names a news report or an interview as its source.
Second, claims about her real name, her family or cosmetic procedures. Some of these come from anonymous forum posts by people who say they know her, which is not something a reader can check. They are not repeated here.
Third, relationship labels drawn from Instagram follows. The April and June reports were careful to say neither person had confirmed anything. The only firsthand statements on the relationship are Kaira’s own two remarks on Rise and Fall, and she has used both “betrayed” and “never dated”.
The practical takeaway: for anything beyond her two shows and her own words on camera, look for a named outlet before treating it as fact.
Kaira Anu in brief
Did Kaira Anu win Splitsvilla X6?
Yes, Kaira Anu and Gullu won MTV Splitsvilla X6 on 16 May 2026 and shared Rs 20 lakh, beating Yogesh Rawat and Ruru Thakur in the final.
Are Kaira and Gullu still together?
No report shows them together after the show. Kaira said on Rise and Fall 2 that she felt betrayed, and later said they had never dated but remained friends.
What is Kaira from Splitsvilla’s age?
No national news report we read gives Kaira Anu’s age or date of birth. Figures on profile sites do not name a source.
When was Kaira Anu evicted from Rise and Fall 2?
Kaira Anu was evicted in week 3 of Rise and Fall Season 2, reported on 15 October 2026, in a double elimination with Raj Grover.
