Pulkit Samrat was born and brought up in a Punjabi Hindu family in Punjab1 where his family has its real estate business He studied at Manav Sthali School and completed his schooling from Montfort Senior Secondary School Ashok Vihar Delhi and joined an advertising course at Apeejay Institute of Design Delhi However after studying for five months he received a modelling assignment Thereafter he quit his studies and shifted to Mumbai where he joined an acting course run by Kishore Namit Kapoor