Priyanka Chopra To Play Ma Anand Sheela in The Film, 'Sheela'

The fascinating story of Osho and Ma Anand Sheela in Netflix's Wild Wild Country was one of the driving factors for the success of the series on the streamer further gaining immense popularity.

And now the story of Sheela is being adapted into a film for Amazon Studios' upcoming venture called Sheela.

None other than Priyanka Chopra Jonas has been roped in to play the titular character of Sheela, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

She will be playing Ma Anand Sheela, a spiritual adviser and the primary perpetrator of the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack in Oregon.

Made famous by Netflix docuseries Wild, Wild Country, Sheela was the personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from 1981 through 1985, and she managed the Rajneeshpuram ashram in Wasco County, Oregon. It was in Oregon that she led the infecting of salad bars at ten local restaurants with salmonella, which led to the food poisoning of 751 individuals. The incident was the largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.

Rain Man director Barry Levinson will helm Sheela, which was written by Nick Yarborough.

Levinson will also produce via his Baltimore Pictures, along Permut Presentations’ David Permut, Jason Sosnoff, and Chopra via her Purple Pebble banner.