Tripathi was born in
New Delhi on November 2, 1988. He became interested in acting after playing a slave in a stage production of
Spartacus. He was a part of the playwright Shahid Anwar's Behroop theater group from 2006 to 2010. Tripathi began training in singing and acting in 2006. He intended to attend the
National School of Drama in New Delhi but moved to South Korea in 2010 to attend
Korea National University of Arts on the Arts Major Asian scholarship. He has discussed the initial difficulty of adjusting to the cultural and language differences but then became fluent in Korean in less than two years. == Career ==