Shriya Saran was born on 11th September 1982 to parents Pushpendra Saran and Neeraja Saran. Her father works at Bharat Heavy Metal Works and her mother is a schoolteacher and teaches chemistry. She grew up in Ranipur, a small town in north India, a few miles from the holy city of Haridwar. She is the second child to her parents and has a brother Abhiroop, who is settled in Delhi.
She did her schooling for Delhi Public School in Delhi and attended Lady Sri Ram College and got B.A (Literature) degree from there. Ever since her childhood, she was interested in dancing and she is now an accomplished Kathak dancer. She took training on classical and kathak dance from a young age under the guidance of Shobha Narayan.
