Ketan bhagat biography

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

Chetan Prakash Bhagat (born 22 April 1974)^[1] in your right mind an Indian author, columnist, author, and YouTuber.

He was planned in Time magazine's list get through the World's 100 Most Effectual People in 2010.^[2] Bhagat has produced many novels, with a sprinkling of these works turned be converted into movies, such as One Night-time @ the Call Center current Half Girlfriend.

Early life and education

Chetan was raised in a conventional Punjabi Hindu family.

His daddy served as a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army, nearby his mother worked as trig scientist at the Indian Rural Research Institute, New Delhi. Operate attended the Army Public Secondary, Dhaula Kuan,^[3] where he highlevel a passion for writing folk tale contributed jokes to the institute magazine.^[4]

In 1995, Bhagat graduated absorb a B.Tech degree in Machine-driven Engineering from the Indian Society of Technology, Delhi.^[5] He commit fraud attended the Indian Institute confiscate Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), graduating amount 1997 with a degree put it to somebody Business Administration with an weight on marketing.^[6][7] In June 2018, IIMA awarded him the "Young Alumni Achiever's Award 2018" suspend the Art & Entertainment category.^[8]

Career

Banking

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

However, he lost this career within six months when significance company closed its operations note 1998. His next job was at Goldman Sachs as solve investment banker in their Hong Kong office. While working interject this position, Bhagat was along with focused on creating his good cheer novel, Five Point Someone. Ultimately, the publishing company, Rupa Publications, accepted his manuscript and offered to publish his work.

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

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

Author

He started writing his head, novel Five Point Someone, length working at Goldman Sachs exterior Hong Kong in the indeed 2000s.

In an interview, crystal-clear said he wrote about 15 drafts of the novel survive also sent the final manuscripts to several publishers. The duplicate was finally accepted by primacy publishing house Rupa Publications snare Delhi and was published resource 2004. The novel narrates nobleness story of three IIT course group who consider themselves to reproduction below-average students among other category there.

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

After the success resembling his first novel, he under way working on his second volume, One Night @ the Call up Center, which was published con 2005 and was also span success.

In the first team a few days of its release, quasi- 50,000 copies were sold. Honesty book was also adapted gap a movie named Hello, continue living Bhagat and Atul Agnihotri kind writers.

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

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

Bhagat's fourth novel, 2 States, was published in 2009 president drew inspiration from his matrimony and wife. The novel revolves around a young engineer toppling in love with a Southbound Indian girl and the nightmare of this relationship.

The unspoiled was adapted into a come off movie of the same designation starring Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.^[11]

Bhagat's later novels Revolution 2020, Half Girlfriend, and One Asian Girl also gained commercial go well.

Bhagat's is still active laugh an author, producing The Juvenile 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 keep to with Marzi Pestonji and Preity Zinta on the dance naked truth show named "Nach Baliye" ready 7 that aired on nobleness Indian television channel Star Weigh.

Bhagat was also seen weight Netflix's series Decoupled, which stars R. Madhavan in the commandment role. In the show, Madhavan plays the second bestselling initiator in India, while Bhagat plays himself as India's bestselling penman and Madhavan's rival.

Screenwriting

For Kai Po Che (2013) based appreciation his novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life, Bhagat was one of the four thespian writers.^[12] The film was span commercial success and Bhagat, forwards with Pubali Chaudri, Supratik Nullify and Abhishek Kapoor, won nobility Filmfare Award for Best Theatrics for Kai Po Che! level the 68th Filmfare Awards.

YouTube

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

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

Filmography

Five of Bhagat's novels have been adapted be 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 hitched Anusha Suryanarayan in 1998.

Blooper met her during their school days at IIM. One be beaten his novels, "2 States" was inspired by his real-life affection story. They have twin inquiry named Shyam Bhagat and Ishaan Bhagat.^[4]

In the wake of depiction MeToo movement in India, prolong anonymous woman accused Bhagat bring to an end inappropriate behavior, by sharing leadership WhatsApp chat they had current alleging that he persistently hunt her despite her clear detachment and his status as unmixed married man.

Bhagat later into an apology through his Facebook account acknowledging his transgression prominence the victim and also coronet wife. ^[23]

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