Hansika is currently enrolled in the 12th Grade doing A levels. She attends Podar International School. Hansika mainly speaks Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, English, Hindi and Tulu, although her native tongue is Sindhi. Her father is Pradeep Motwani, a businessman, and her mother is Mona Motwani, a dermatologist. She is learning Tamil as she is making her debut in a Tamil film industry. She wants to be a leading actress in Tamil also
She began her TV journey on a serial called Shakalaka Boom Boom (a story about a boy named Sanju and his magic pencil)