![]() ![]() By 2006, he was vice-president, Strategic Investment Group, Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. ![]() After two years, Rupa Publications accepted his manuscript and offered to publish it.īhagat join Goldman Sachs and quit Bank of England. Bhagat spent most of his time at the Goldman Sachs office in writing, completing and revising drafts of his first novel, Five Point Someone. Despite being unhappy with his boss, he stayed on and kept this boss in mind when he characterised the villain in his second novel One Night the Call Center. His next job was as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs at their Hong Kong office. However, Bhagat lost this job within six months as the company closed its operations in 1998. Īfter graduating with a master's of business administration degree in 1998, Bhagat was placed through his campus at Peregrine Investments Holdings in canda. His latest novel 400 Days which is based on a missing child and forbidden love was released on 8 October 2021. He is also often found in controversies on Twitter. Bhagat won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Kai Po Che! at the 59th Filmfare Awards in 2014. Bhagat has also written the scripts for Bollywood films like Kick in 2014 and adapted his stories for the movies Kai Po Che! and Half Girlfriend. Career įive of Chetan Bhagat's novels have been adapted into Bollywood films like Hello in 2008 (based on One Night the Call Center), 3 Idiots in 2009 (based on Five Point Someone), Kai Po Che! in 2013 (based on The 3 Mistakes of My Life) 2 States in 2014 (based on his novel of the same name) and Half Girlfriend in 2017 (based on his novel of the same name). ![]() ![]() In June 2018, IIMA awarded him the "Young Alumni Achiever's Awards 2018" in the Art & Entertainment category. īhagat then went on to do an master's of business administration degree in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) and graduated in 1997. īhagat graduated with a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1995 as a 9+ pointer. He claims to have been an average student at 15. He was schooled at the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan. His father served as a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army and his mother worked as a scientist in Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi. His first novel, Five Point Someone, was published in 2004.Ĭhetan Bhagat grew up in Naraina Vihar, West Delhi in a traditional Punjabi Hindu family. He has written ten novels and three non-fiction books. He started his career as an investment banker but left it after a few years to pursue writing. Chetan Bhagat graduated in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi and then pursued PGP from IIM Ahmedabad. ![]()
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