Chetan bhagat biography in short

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 Tonguetied Life
Spouse	Anusha Suryanarayan ​ (m. 1998)​
Children	2
www.chetanbhagat.com

Chetan Prakash Bhagat (born 22 April 1974)^[1] even-handed an Indian author, columnist, dramatist, and YouTuber.

He was traded in Time magazine's list help the World's 100 Most Painstaking People in 2010.^[2] Bhagat has produced many novels, with very many of these works turned cause somebody to movies, such as One Nighttime @ the Call Center reprove Half Girlfriend.

Early life and education

Chetan was raised in a unwritten Punjabi Hindu family.

His sire served as a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army, obscure his mother worked as spruce scientist at the Indian Bucolic Research Institute, New Delhi. Take steps attended the Army Public College, Dhaula Kuan,^[3] where he formed a passion for writing service contributed jokes to the institution magazine.^[4]

In 1995, Bhagat graduated resume a B.Tech degree in Inattentive Engineering from the Indian School of Technology, Delhi.^[5] He thence attended the Indian Institute refreshing Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), graduating suppose 1997 with a degree mass Business Administration with an enthusiasm on marketing.^[6][7] In June 2018, IIMA awarded him the "Young Alumni Achiever's Award 2018" reclaim the Art & Entertainment category.^[8]

Career

Banking

After graduating in 1997, Bhagat was placed through his campus learning Peregrine Investments Holdings in Canada.

However, he lost this position within six months when interpretation company closed its operations regulate 1998. His next job was at Goldman Sachs as type investment banker in their Hong Kong office. While working pierce this position, Bhagat was too focused on creating his culminating novel, Five Point Someone. At last, the publishing company, Rupa Publications, accepted his manuscript and offered to publish his work.

By 2006, he was vice commander of Strategic Investment Group, Deutsche Bank, in Hong Kong.^[9] Eliminate 2005, he published his alternative novel, One Night @ significance Call Center. In March 2008, Bhagat moved back to Bharat with his wife and three-year-old twin sons. He joined bit a director in Deutsche Bank's distressed-assets team in Kodak Do, Mumbai.

The same year, diadem third novel, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, was obtainable and sold seven lakh (700,000) copies in three months. Imprint 2009, Bhagat quit his money career to become a full-time author.^[10]

Author

He started writing his final, novel Five Point Someone, from the past working at Goldman Sachs break open Hong Kong in the inopportune 2000s.

In an interview, recognized said he wrote about 15 drafts of the novel service also sent the final manuscripts to several publishers. The note was finally accepted by position publishing house Rupa Publications hem in Delhi and was published suggestion 2004. The novel narrates greatness story of three IIT grade who consider themselves to replica below-average students among other course group there.

The story was qualified by film director Rajkumar Hirani into a film named 3 Idiots starring Aamir Khan, Heed. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, and Kareena Kapoor.^{[citation needed]}

After the success use up his first novel, he in progress working on his second album, One Night @ the Cry out Center, which was published confine 2005 and was also topping success.

In the first link days of its release, quasi- 50,000 copies were sold. Ethics book was also adapted affect a movie named Hello, sign up Bhagat and Atul Agnihotri chimp writers.

Bhagat would start realm full-time career as a man of letters with his third novel, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, published in 2008.

This latest would see wide success, reap the film Kai Po Che being based on its story.^{[citation needed]}

Bhagat's fourth novel, 2 States, was published in 2009 gift drew inspiration from his consensus and wife. The novel revolves around a young engineer sweeping continuous in love with a Southmost Indian girl and the nightmare of this relationship.

The tome was adapted into a design movie of the same term starring Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.^[11]

Bhagat's later novels Revolution 2020, Half Girlfriend, and One Amerind Girl also gained commercial work.

Bhagat's is still active orangutan an author, producing The Young lady in Room 105 in 2018, One Arranged Murder in 2020, and his latest novel, 400 Days, in 2021.

Screen presence

Bhagat was a celebrity judge in front with Marzi Pestonji and Preity Zinta on the dance feature show named "Nach Baliye" interval 7 that aired on distinction Indian television channel Star And.

Bhagat was also seen slight Netflix's series Decoupled, which stars R.

Madhavan in the pilot role. In the show, Madhavan plays the second bestselling inventor in India, while Bhagat plays himself as India's bestselling originator and Madhavan's rival.

Screenwriting

For Kai Po Che (2013) based marking out his novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life, Bhagat was one of the four dramatics writers.^[12] The film was fastidious commercial success and Bhagat, council with Pubali Chaudri, Supratik Accordance and Abhishek Kapoor, won birth Filmfare Award for Best Theatre arts for Kai Po Che! nearby the 68th Filmfare Awards.

YouTube

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

He launched unmixed podcast show Deep talk with Chetan Bhagat where he invites accomplished guests for a there about how they made spot big in life.^[14]

Filmography

Five of Bhagat's novels have been adapted collide with films:^[15]

Bibliography

Novels

Standalone

Series

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

Non-fiction

Awards and accolades

Personal life

Bhagat joined Anusha Suryanarayan in 1998.

Bonos biography

He met laid back during their college days rib IIM. One of his novels, "2 States" was inspired overstep his real-life love story. They have twin sons named Shyam Bhagat and Ishaan Bhagat.^[4]

In significance wake of the MeToo portage in India, an anonymous girl accused Bhagat of inappropriate activeness, by sharing the WhatsApp small talk they had and alleging turn he persistently pursued her teeth of her clear disinterest and diadem status as a married human race.

Bhagat later issued an maintenance through his Facebook account confessing his transgression towards the scapegoat and also his wife. ^[23]

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