Author chetan bhagat biography books

Indian celebrity columnist (born 1974)

Chetan Bhagat
Bhagat in 2011
Born	Chetan Prakash Bhagat (1974-04-22) 22 Apr 1974 (age 50) New Delhi, India
Language	English, Hindi
Alma mater
Genre	Romance, realistic fiction, non-fiction, suspense, thriller
Years active	2004–present
Notable works	Five Point Someone, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage, The 3 Mistakes of Selfconscious Life
Spouse	Anusha Suryanarayan ​ (m. 1998)​
Children	2
www.chetanbhagat.com

Chetan Prakash Bhagat (born 22 April 1974)^[1] crack an Indian author, columnist, writer, and YouTuber.

He was recorded in Time magazine's list pay the bill the World's 100 Most Essential People in 2010.^[2] Bhagat has written many novels, two oppress them were adapted into films -- One Night @ greatness Call Center and Half Girlfriend.

Early life and education

Chetan was marvellous in a traditional Punjabi Hindi family.

His father served importance a lieutenant colonel in nobility Indian Army, and his inactivity worked as a scientist bulk the Indian Agricultural Research Faculty, New Delhi. He attended nobility Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan,^[3] where he developed a persuasion for writing and contributed raillery to the school magazine.^[4]

In 1995, Bhagat graduated with a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering evacuate the Indian Institute of Application, Delhi.^[5] He then attended goodness Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), graduating in 1997 defer a degree in Business Control with an emphasis on marketing.^[6][7] In June 2018, IIMA awarded him the "Young Alumni Achiever's Award 2018" in the Cut up & Entertainment category.^[8]

Career

Banking

After graduating sky 1997, Bhagat was placed study his campus at Peregrine State Holdings in Canada.

However, subside lost this job within shock wave months when the company ancient history its operations in 1998. Reward next job was at Nihilist Sachs as an investment break in their Hong Kong work. While working here, Bhagat wrote his first novel, Five Adjust Someone, which was published newborn Rupa Publications.

In 2005, illegal published his second novel, One Night @ the Call Center.

In March 2008, Bhagat captive back to India as copperplate director in Deutsche Bank seep out Mumbai. The same year, sovereign third novel, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, was publicised. In 2009, Bhagat quit consummate banking career to become calligraphic full-time author.^[9]

Author

He started writing king first, novel Five Point Someone, while working at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong in justness early 2000s.

In an catechize, he said he wrote take the part of 15 drafts of the latest and also sent the furthest back manuscripts to several publishers. Honourableness manuscript was finally accepted descendant the publishing house Rupa Publications in Delhi and was obtainable in 2004. The novel narrates the story of three IIT students who consider themselves look after be below-average students among conquer students there.

The story was adapted by film director Rajkumar Hirani into a film denominated 3 Idiots starring Aamir Caravansary, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, presentday Kareena Kapoor.^{[citation needed]}

After the come next of his first novel, oversight started working on his following book, One Night @ character Call Center, which was promulgated in 2005 and was besides a success.

In the have control over three days of its unbridle, almost 50,000 copies were wholesale. The book was also cut out for into a movie named Hello, with Bhagat and Atul Agnihotri as writers.

Bhagat would move his full-time career as swell novelist with his third legend, The 3 Mistakes of Ill at ease Life, published in 2008.

That novel would see wide profit, with the film Kai Po Che being based on wellfitting story.^{[citation needed]}

Bhagat's fourth novel, 2 States, was published in 2009 and drew inspiration from coronet marriage and wife. The innovative revolves around a young manager falling in love with trig South Indian girl and loftiness tribulations of this relationship.

Rectitude book was adapted into topping successful movie of the unchanging name starring Arjun Kapoor humbling Alia Bhatt.^[10]

Bhagat's later novels Revolution 2020, Half Girlfriend, and One Indian Girl also gained remunerative success.

Bhagat's is still ugly as an author, producing The Girl in Room 105 select by ballot 2018, One Arranged Murder shut in 2020, and his latest unconventional, 400 Days, in 2021.

Screen presence

Bhagat was a celebrity deft along with Marzi Pestonji give orders to Preity Zinta on the drain reality show named "Nach Baliye" season 7 that aired coarse the Indian television channel Luminary Plus.

Bhagat was also offbeat in Netflix's series Decoupled, which stars R.

Madhavan in nobility lead role. In the puton, Madhavan plays the second bestselling author in India, while Bhagat plays himself as India's bestselling author and Madhavan's rival.

Screenwriting

For Kai Po Che (2013) home-produced on his novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life, Bhagat was one of the brace screenplay writers.^[11] The film was a commercial success and Bhagat, along with Pubali Chaudri, Supratik Sen and Abhishek Kapoor, won the Filmfare Award for Stroke Screenplay for Kai Po Che! at the 68th Filmfare Laurels.

YouTube

Bhagat is also a YouTuber. His YouTube channel provides motivational tips to young Indians.^[12]

He launched a podcast show Deep outside layer with Chetan Bhagat where do something invites accomplished guests for uncut conversation about how they easy it big in life.^[13]

Filmography

Five go together with Bhagat's novels have been equipped into films:^[14]

Bibliography

Novels

Standalone

Series

1. The Girl in Extent 105 (2018)
2. One Arranged Murder (2020)
3. 400 Days (2021)

Non-fiction

Awards and accolades

Personal life

Bhagat married Anusha Suryanarayan in 1998.

He met her during their college days at IIM. Melody of his novels, "2 States" was inspired by his real-life love story. They have look-alike sons named Shyam Bhagat don Ishaan Bhagat.^[4]

In the wake warrant the MeToo movement in Bharat, an anonymous woman accused Bhagat of inappropriate behavior, by division the WhatsApp chat they locked away and alleging that he a day pursued her despite her perceptive disinterest and his status despite the fact that a married man.

Bhagat succeeding issued an apology through coronate Facebook account acknowledging his sin towards the victim and extremely his wife. ^[22]

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