CONFIRMED: Priyanka Chopra to play Ma Anand Sheela in new Amazon Prime series

After much anticipation, it has been confirmed that Priyanka Chopra will be portraying role of Ma Anand Sheela (Osho's personal secretary). As reported by Hollywood reporter, new Amazon Prime Video drama titled Sheela will be directed by Barry Levinson. 

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Under banner Baltimore pictures, filmmaker will produce it along with Permut Presentations’ David Permut, Jason Sosff, and Priyanka’s production house Purple Pebble Pictures. And what's interesting is that Netflix too is working on a documentary featuring Ma Anand Sheela herself. 

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biopic focuses on life of Ma Anand Sheela and will portray how she contributed to developing a whole cult in American, working as a right-hand woman for this Indian guru Osho. 

Priyanka Chopra on Ma Anand Sheela biopic 

“Yeah, I am developing a feature film with Barry Levinson. He did Rain Man and he is an iconic American director. And we are developing it as character of Ma Anand Sheela, who was this guru (Osho) who originated from India, his right-hand woman and she was just devious and created a whole cult in America and brought people here. He was called Osho. I am developing that next for me to star in and produce in which I think would be really cool.” said Priyanka Chopra in a press conference. 

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Osho, originally named Rajneesh, was an Indian guru who became a global sensation in  '90s. His philosophy was seen as revolutionary by his followers, but for rest of world, it was a cult. 'Wild wild Country' is a six-part documentary series on Netflix that showed what happened when followers of Rajneesh moved to Oregon in US to build ir utopian city, which y called Rajneeshpuram. Maa Anand Sheela was his personal secretary who ran entire operation and was later convicted of many crimes. 

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