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Chetan Bhagat
  • Date of Birth:
    April 22, 1974
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Taurus
  • Place of Birth:
    New Delhi, India
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Black
  • Eye Color:
    Gray
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Religion:
    Hinduism
  • Education:

    The Army Public School, Delhi

    IIT, Delhi

    IIM, Ahmedabad

Family

Chetan Bhagat
  • Brother:
    Ketan Bhagat
  • Spouse:
    Anusha
  • Son:
    Ishaan, Shyaam

Career

Chetan Bhagat

Awards

Chetan Bhagat

2004 : Society Young Achiever's Award

2005 : Publisher’s Recognition Award

Trivia

Chetan Bhagat
  • He is health conscious and practices yoga.
  • Chetan also visits many Educational Institutions often & inspires the students with his speeches. His speech 'Spark' in Pune has been really famous and was translated and published in different newspapers. The speech was given at the inauguration of a college year and is meant for the youth. It tells the youth to take life lightly yet to work it out well.
  • Chetan has explored India in different ways in all the four books. Highlighting various aspects of the country. He has followed a pattern with his books by naming the protagonists after Lord Krishna Hari, Shyam, Govind and now Krishna.
  • After eleven years in Hong Kong, the author relocated to Mumbai in 2008, where he works as an investment banker.
  • At IIM Ahmedabad, he received a medal for the 'Best Outgoing Student Award'.
  • He has three best sellers to his credit, two of which were made into Bollywood films – one starring Sanjay Dutt (Hello) and another starring the irrepressible Aamir Khan (3 Idiots).
  • Chetan Bhagat is one of the new age writers.

Quotes

Chetan Bhagat
  • "My ambitions are changing - I've had the thrill of best sellers - maybe it'll be politics in the long term."
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Biography

Chetan Bhagat
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Chetan BhagatChetan Bhagat is one of the most popular novelists in India, whose books have been adapted into movies.Chetan Bhagat was born on 22nd April 1974 in New Delhi, India. After finishing school at The Army Public School in New Delhi, he joined IIT Delhi. He completed a post graduation course from IIM Ahmedabad. He worked as an investment banker and lived in Hong Kong for eleven years before moving to Mumbai. He is married to Anusha, whom he met at IIM. The couple have twins Ishaan and Shyam.

Chetan Bhagat rose to fame with his first novel Five Point Someone (2004) about what it feels like to be below average students at IIT. He won the Society Young Achiever’s Award (2004) and Publisher’s Recognition Award (2005). The book has taken the form of a movie 3 Idiots which will be released in 2009. It is directed by Rajkumar Hirani and stars Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi and Kareena Kapoor.

His second book One Night @ a Call Center was yet another success. He wrote the script for the movie Hello (2008) based on this book. The movie had a special appearance by Salman Khan and was an average success. His third novel was Three Mistakes of My Life (2008) which has a lot of cricket in it. It remains to be seen if what the chances are of this book being made into a movie.

Filmography

Chetan Bhagat
  • Hello Friday, October 10, 2008

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