Reema Kagti grew up in Assam, spent some years in Delhi and moved to Mumbai for college, at Sophia, and thereafter a course in social communications at the media school, Sophia Polytechnic. 

Describing the beginning of her long-term association with Zoya Akhtar, Reema narrated during Mid-day's Sit With Hitlist, "At some point, I bumped into Zoya. We liked the same kinda films, had a lotta common ground, we began writing small stuff together."