 Arun's father, Shri Chandra Prakash Govil, was a government officer.Arun is the fourth of six brothers and two sisters.His elder brother Vijay Govil is married to Tabassum, a former child actress and the host of the first Bollywood Celebrity talk show on Doordarshan "Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan", which continued for 21 years.