Kartik Tiwari was born on 22 November 1990 in Gwalior, Madhya Pardesh. Both his parents are doctors, his father is a paediatrician and mother, mala is a gynaecologist. He pursued an engineering degree in biotechnology from Navi Mumbai, D Y Patil College of Engineering, while secretly harbouring amitions for a career in film. He has said that he would skip his classes and travel for two hours to attend auditions. Aaryan began a modelling career while in unversity and after three years of unsuccessfully adutitioning for films, he did an acting course from the kreating charakters institute. He informed his parents of his desire to become an actor anly after he signed his first film.
While still in his third year of college, Aaryan made his acting debut with Luv Ranjan's buddy film  Pyaar ka punchnama, co-starring Divyendu sharma, Raayo S Bakhirta, and Nushrat Bharucha which revolves around the romantic trinulations faced by three young men