Chetan Prakash Bhagat (born 22 April 1974),[1] is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, and YouTuber.

[5] He then attended the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), graduating in 1997 with a Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on marketing.

[8] Before transitioning to a full-time writing career, Chetan Bhagat worked as an investment banker in Hong Kong for approximately 11 years.

[13] While working at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong during the early 2000s, he began writing his debut novel, Five Point Someone.

[citation needed] The novel depicts the lives of three students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) who perceive themselves as underperformers compared to their peers.

The story was later adapted into the Bollywood film 3 Idiots, directed by Rajkumar Hirani and starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, and Kareena Kapoor.

The novel revolves around a young engineer falling in love with a South Indian girl and the tribulations of this relationship.

[17] Bhagat's is still active as an author, producing The Girl in Room 105 in 2018, One Arranged Murder in 2020, and his latest novel, 400 Days, in 2021.

Bhagat was a celebrity judge, alongside Marzi Pestonji and Preity Zinta, on the dance reality show Nach Baliye season 7, which aired on the Indian television channel Star Plus.

[20] The film was a commercial success[21] and Bhagat, along with Pubali Chaudhuri, Supratik Sen and Abhishek Kapoor, won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Kai Po Che!