It was during his stay in Hong Kong that Chetan got the idea to write his first book, Five Point Someone. In an interview, Chetan had said that he was selected for the post of an investment banker in Golden Sachs after going through 27 rounds of internal interviews. He was employed in the company’s Hong Kong office, where he worked for around ten years. Immediately after passing out from MBA, Chetan started working for an investment banking company called Golden Sachs. Then, he enrolled in an MBA program at IIM Ahmedabad and earned it in 1997. Following this, he pursued his mechanical engineering degree from IIT Delhi and obtained it in 1995.
Chetan completed his schooling from the Dhaula Kuan Army Public School in Delhi. Chetan has a younger brother named Ketan, who is also an author. His mother worked for the government in the agriculture department, while his dad was an officer in the Indian Army. Author Chetan was born in New Delhi, India on April 22, 1974. Recently, he has signed a contract with Amazon Publishing and has published his latest book, The Girl In Room 105, with the new publication. His work in Kai Po Che! has won him the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 Filmfare Awards.Īll of Chetan’s books have been published under the banner of Rupa Publications, an Indian-based publishing company. The screenwriting work of author Chetan includes working for movies like 2 States, Kai Po Che!, Half Girlfriend, and Kick, the former three being adapted based on his own novels. In 2008, The NY Times labeled him as the biggest selling novelist of the English language in the history of India. The novels written by Chetan have sold more than 7 million copies all over the world. As a columnist, he writes columns on a regular basis about career development, current affairs, and youth in leading daily newspapers likes Dainik Bhaskar and The Times of India.
All of Chetan’s novels are widely popular and many of them have been adopted into Bollywood movies. His notable works include Five Point Someone, Half Girlfriend, One Night at the Call Center, 2 States, etc. Chetan has written eight novels so far that mainly feature the young urban middle-class of India. He is famous for writing Indian-English novels in the realistic fiction, erotica, nonfiction, and romance genres. Chetan Bhagat is a renowned author, screenwriter, motivational speaker, columnist, and television personality from India.
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