Five point someone - What not to do at IIT

This was the novel that made Chetan Bhagat IIT Delhi graduate who is also alumunus of IIM Ahmedabad a big name in the filed of literture. Five point someone - what not to do at IIT was the first novel writeen by Chetan Bhagat and its the highest selling Indian novel written in English and bestseller of 2007.


The novel is set in IIT Delhi(1991 to 1995) and is about the life of three mechanical engineering students(and people around them). Three students are:
Hari Kumar (the narrator)
Ryan Oberoi
Alok Gupta

All three fail to cope up with the cruel grading system of the IITs where teacher ask them to go for markes not for creativty. The friends were known as five pointers due to their perennially low 5.something GPA's.

The whole story is narrated by Hari, with some small passages by his friends Ryan and Alok, as well as a letter by Hari's girlfriend Neha Cherian. Along with the three firends fling to make IIT Delhi the best college in engineering novel also features Hari's love affair with Neha who daughter of Prof. Cherian, HOD, Mechanical Engineering Department.


Novel five point something was adapted into a play by the theatre group Madras Players and a bollywood movie named 3 Idiots also made on the novel.