Abijeet Duddala was born to Manmohan Duddala and Lakshmi Prasanna Duddala on the 11th of October, 1988. His ancestors migrated to Hyderabad to assist with the construction of The Charminar. Ever since, his family has been into the construction and contracts business. The Kadem Project in Adilabad District of Andhra Pradesh, was built by his grandfather, Duddala Nagaiah. He studied his kindergarten in Chaitanya Vidyalaya (coincidentally the same school in which Akhil Akkineni also studied). He did his primary and higher school education in Rishi Valley School, founded by Jiddu Krishnamurti, in Madanapally, Chittoor district, before graduating as an Aeronautical Engineer from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. During his final year of college, an assistant director from Sekhar Kammula's team contacted him asking him to audition for the film Life Is Beautiful after going through his profile on a social networking website. He subsequently got selected and was cast as the main lead of the film as Amala Akkineni's son.