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Writing 2 States helped me forgive my father: Chetan Bhagat
By - TNNPriya GuptaApr 12, 2014, 00:00 IST
Writing 2 States helped me forgive my father: Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat, 39, loves taking on challenges, is grounded and is happy that he is able to straddle many worlds, be it writing, Bollywood or being a motivational speaker with equal ease. He is open and communicative and lives for his family. Being a popular artiste, he also aspires to change things in his country. He is the only Indian author, whose every work has been made into a film. Ahead of his next book being made into a film 2 States, he spoke to Bombay Times about his turbulent relationship with his father, his love for his mother and what he loves about Tamilians. Excerpts:
Talk about the idea of writing the book 2 States?
I am a Punjabi, born and brought up in Delhi. I was always a curious kid, who was good at two things — maths and telling jokes. In typical Indian middle-class fashion, they tell you to forget about the jokes and focus on maths. And that's what I did. Today, I make a living out of my jokes and storytelling. I went to Army Public School and was not a particularly bright student and scored just 76% in Class X. That is when I decided to take on the challenge and got through, first, IIT Delhi and subsequently, IIM Ahmedabad, where I met my Tamilian wife Anusha. Post completing my MBA in 1997, I worked first for Goldman Sachs and then Deutsche Bank, first, in Hong Kong, and the last one year in India, but left them to do full-time writing in 2009. Writing was my hobby, but I never thought that I could have been a career writer. I wrote three books while I was at the bank, when I met a French journalist friend and he said to me, 'In all three books of yours, the relationship between the protagonist and the father is dysfunctional. In Five Point Someone, one guy doesn't like his parents, the other guy has a paralysed father and the third guy has a strict father, in One Night The Call Center, Shyam is underconfident and his parents are always fighting. In The 3 Mistakes Of My Life, the father has deserted him and even Ishan's father slaps him and he has a bad relationship with his father.