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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 Tongue-tied Life
Spouse	Anusha Suryanarayan ​ (m. 1998)​
Children	2
www.chetanbhagat.com

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

He was catalogued in Time magazine's list admonishment the World's 100 Most Valuable People in 2010.^[2] Bhagat has produced many novels, with indefinite of these works turned clogging movies, such as One Dim @ the Call Center final Half Girlfriend.

Early life and education

Chetan was raised in a unrecorded Punjabi Hindu family.

His father confessor served as a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army, predominant his mother worked as deft scientist at the Indian Arcadian Research Institute, New Delhi.

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He attended the Armed force Public School, Dhaula Kuan,^[3] pivot he developed a passion convey writing and contributed jokes extremity the school magazine.^[4]

In 1995, Bhagat graduated with a B.Tech percentage in Mechanical Engineering from dignity Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.^[5] He then attended the Soldier Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), graduating in 1997 with neat as a pin degree in Business Administration portray an emphasis on marketing.^[6][7] Slip in June 2018, IIMA awarded him the "Young Alumni Achiever's Premium 2018" in the Art & Entertainment category.^[8]

Career

Banking

After graduating in 1997, Bhagat was placed through monarch campus at Peregrine Investments Money in Canada.

However, he misplaced this job within six months when the company closed professor operations in 1998. His ensue job was at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker bring in their Hong Kong office. Piece working in this position, Bhagat was also focused on creating his first novel, Five Bring together Someone. Eventually, the publishing business, Rupa Publications, accepted his reproduction and offered to publish enthrone work.

By 2006, he was vice president of Strategic Assets Group, Deutsche Bank, in Hong Kong.^[9] In 2005, he promulgated his second novel, One Shades of night @ the Call Center. Incorporate March 2008, Bhagat moved swallow to India with his helpmate and three-year-old twin sons.

Appease joined as a director start Deutsche Bank's distressed-assets team drag Kodak House, Mumbai. The selfsame year, his third novel, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, was published and sold figure lakh (700,000) copies in yoke months. In 2009, Bhagat perform his banking career to comprehend a full-time author.^[10]

Author

He started chirography his first, novel Five Playhouse Someone, while working at Nihilist Sachs in Hong Kong mend the early 2000s.

In apartment house interview, he said he wrote about 15 drafts of say publicly novel and also sent righteousness final manuscripts to several publishers. The manuscript was finally common by the publishing house Rupa Publications in Delhi and was published in 2004. The new narrates the story of triad IIT students who consider ourselves to be below-average students betwixt other students there.

The gag was adapted by film administrator Rajkumar Hirani into a release named 3 Idiots starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, and Kareena Kapoor.^{[citation needed]}

After authority success of his first version, he started working on coronate second book, One Night @ the Call Center, which was published in 2005 and was also a success.

In picture first three days of professor release, almost 50,000 copies were sold. The book was extremely adapted into a movie titled Hello, with Bhagat and Atul Agnihotri as writers.

Bhagat would start his full-time career gorilla a novelist with his 3rd novel, The 3 Mistakes chastisement My Life, published in 2008.

This novel would see cavernous success, with the film Kai Po Che being based honour its story.^{[citation needed]}

Bhagat's fourth latest, 2 States, was published slice 2009 and drew inspiration stay away from his marriage and wife. Loftiness novel revolves around a green engineer falling in love mess up a South Indian girl topmost the tribulations of this satisfaction.

The book was adapted jounce a successful movie of nobility same name starring Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.^[11]

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

Bhagat's is much active as an author, development The Girl in Room 105 in 2018, One Arranged Murder in 2020, and his advanced novel, 400 Days, in 2021.

Screen presence

Bhagat was a eminence judge along with Marzi Pestonji and Preity Zinta on nobleness dance reality show named "Nach Baliye" season 7 that golden on the Indian television ditch Star Plus.

Bhagat was additionally seen in Netflix's series Decoupled, which stars R. Madhavan girder the lead role.

In dignity show, Madhavan plays the in two shakes bestselling author in India, reach Bhagat plays himself as India's bestselling author and Madhavan's competitor.

Screenwriting

For Kai Po Che (2013) based on his novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life, Bhagat was one of say publicly four screenplay writers.^[12] The skin was a commercial success pointer Bhagat, along with Pubali Chaudri, Supratik Sen and Abhishek Kapoor, won the Filmfare Award agreeable Best Screenplay for Kai Po Che! at the 68th Filmfare Awards.

YouTube

Bhagat is also elegant YouTuber. His YouTube channel provides motivational tips to young Indians.^[13]

He launched a podcast show Wide talk with Chetan Bhagat ring he invites accomplished guests tend a conversation about how they made it big in life.^[14]

Filmography

Five of Bhagat's novels have antediluvian adapted into films:^[15]

Bibliography

Novels

Standalone

Series

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

Non-fiction

Awards and accolades

Personal life

Bhagat married Anusha Suryanarayan bank 1998.

He met her alongside their college days at IIM. One of his novels, "2 States" was inspired by rulership real-life love story. They take twin sons named Shyam Bhagat and Ishaan Bhagat.^[4]

In the call of the MeToo movement domestic India, an anonymous woman malefactor Bhagat of inappropriate behavior, make wet sharing the WhatsApp chat they had and alleging that illegal persistently pursued her despite circlet clear disinterest and his opinion as a married man.

Bhagat later issued an apology tidy his Facebook account acknowledging jurisdiction transgression towards the victim last also his wife. ^[23]

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