He studied to be a Dairy Technologist. But he soon left and worked as a copywriter in advertising. He then pursued filmmaking. After completing his Masters in Mass Communications at Jamia Milia Islamia in New Delhi, he shifted to Mumbai. He has been an integral part of Phantom Films’ productions- Vikramaditya Motwane’s Lootera (2013), Vikas Bahl’s Queen (2014) as a script supervisor and an assistant director. His first short fiction film Skin Deep (2014) was released theatrically across India along with three other short films in an anthology called Chaar Cutting. In documentaries, Hardik has been a second unit director on Sachin Tendulkar’s: Sachin: A Billion Dreams and has also been a unit director on The Sunburn Documentary about the annual EDM Festival in Goa.