chetan bhagat has been controversys favourite child even an unintentional statement from the author fires up the headlines instantly even though chetan bhagat speaks his mind trollers do not forbid him here are five instances when the celebrity author was caught in a controversy or was trolled by the twitterattis 1 sued for his book half girlfrienda defamation suit was filed against the author by the scion of the former princely state of dumraon in bihar maharaja bahadur kamal singh for portraying male members of a royal family as alcoholics and gamblers even though there were references from the novel pointed out by the royal family bhagat claimed it to be a work of fiction a defamation case for 1 crore inr was filed against the author2 the 3 idiots controversychetan bhagat claimed that the plot of the movie 3 idiots was lifted from his book five point someone and was not given credit for that too director of the movie rajkumar hirani said at a press conference that he narrated the script to bhagat and had purchased the rights of the books which gave him the right to modify content according to the films requirement chetans name was mentioned in the rolling credit at the end of the movie which went according to the contract the author had signed3 trolled for his comment on award waapsithe country had become intolerant in context to the issues like beef ban cowkilling govt of india crackdown against foriegnfunded ngos and killing of akhlaq in dadri several sahitya akademi winners returned their awards to showcase their support agianst the issues in this extreme environment of intolerant india chetan bhagat tried to sound funny but his tweet on sahitya academy awards triggered the twitter trollers4 his tweet on historiansmost of the times twitter has been a tough place for chetan bhagat one of his tweets that questioned what do historians do i am genuinely curious this happened then this happened then this ok work done for the day did not go well with most of the people a trail of hilarious tweets thawed on his twitter wall proved once again his hate and love relationship with his followers5 accused of plagiarismrecently a bangalorebased author avnita bajpai accused chetan bhagat of plagiarism she sued the author for copying her story and developing into his latest novel one indian girl this is the second time he has been accused of being inspired and developing a novel based on some elses story all gif source giphy