I was scared as a typical middle-class person of leaving a secure investment banking job to be a writer. That will free you as a writer.’ It hit me and I decided to tackle it. You get that security and authority figure here, but you are rebelling by writing books on the side. To us French people, it’s shocking that you have written three bestsellers and are still doing a job.
So he told me, ‘You have a very turbulent relationship with authority. ALSO READ: Why Arjun Kapoor has not read '2 States' 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. 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. 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. Writing was my hobby, but I never thought that I could have been a career writer. 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. 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. I went to Army Public School and was not a particularly bright student and scored just 76% in Class X. Today, I make a living out of my jokes and storytelling.
In typical Indian middle-class fashion, they tell you to forget about the jokes and focus on maths. I was always a curious kid, who was good at two things - maths and telling jokes. Excerpts: Talk about the idea of writing the book 2 States? I am a Punjabi, born and brought up in Delhi. 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. He is the only Indian author, whose every work has been made into a film. Being a popular artiste, he also aspires to change things in his country. He is open and communicative and lives for his family. 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.
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