Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is a renowned author, screenwriter, motivational speaker, columnist, and television personality from India. He is famous for writing Indian-English novels in the realistic fiction, erotica, nonfiction, and romance genres. Chetan has written eight novels so far that mainly feature the young urban middle-class of India. His notable works include Five Point Someone, Half Girlfriend, One Night at the Call Center, 2 States, etc. All of Chetan’s novels are widely popular and many of them have been adopted into Bollywood movies. 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. The novels written by Chetan have sold more than 7 million copies all over the world. In 2008, The NY Times labeled him as the biggest selling novelist of the English language in the history of India. 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. His work in Kai Po Che! has won him the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 Filmfare Awards.