[2] Puranik was born and brought up in Nagpur and attended Somalwar Nikalas School School there and received training in Indian classical music while growing up.
Puranik shifted to Mumbai to pursue formal training in music under the guidance of Suresh Wadkar and attended Mithibai College for higher education.
[1][3][4] He started his Bollywood career in 2014 by assisting film maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali in the music production of Bajirao Mastani's soundtrack[3] and composed song 'Gajanana' for Bhansali's film Bajirao Mastani[5] Puranik composed songs for films such as Photocopy, Lapachhapi and Faster Fene.
[3] Puranik received recognition for his composition 'Satranga' featured in Animal movie, the song is written by Siddharth-Garima and was sung by Arijit Singh[6] Puranik was awarded the Filmfare R. D. Burman Award for upcoming music talent for composing the 'Satranga' song.
Puranik had met Bhandari at Suresh Wadkar's music academy in 2011.