Shreyas attended Shree Ram Welfare Society’s High School in Andheri West followed by Mithibai College in Vile Parle.

[3] Talpade began his acting career appearing in Marathi soap operas and doing stage shows across Maharashtra.

Fame arrived after he made his Bollywood debut in Nagesh Kukunoor's Iqbal which was written by Vipul K Rawal[4] in which he played the role of a deaf & mute youngster aspiring to be a cricketer.

He also did movies like Shyam Benegal's Welcome to Sajjanpur, along with Golmaal Returns and Sangeeth Sivan's horror flick, Click.

[8][9] Shreyas has produced a Marathi film, titled Poshter Boyz, under his home production banner, Affluence Movies.

Poshter Boyz was remade in Hindi as Poster Boys and Shreyas made his directorial debut with this film which released on 8 September 2017.