Ma Anand Sheela On Rival Biopics: 'Priyanka Chopra Didn¡¯t Take Permission, I'd Pick Alia Bhatt'
Osho¡¯s closest aide and the controversial public figure Ma Anand Sheela has two biopics already announced on her. One of which starred Priyanka Chopra and the other one had Alia Bhatt. While none of them took off, Sheela wishes only Alia plays her character as she looks like younger Sheela.
Sheela revealed that neither Priyanka nor director Barry Levinson took her permission before announcing her biopic.
In an interview for the YouTube channel Daasta, Sheela reasoned why she passed by Priyanka¡¯s version. She shared, ¡°She has never asked me officially. The director has also not asked. I have only been asked about this by journalists. My choice was Alia Bhatt because when I was younger, I looked like her.¡±
In an old interview, Sheela shared that she sent an email to Priyanka to seize the project.
She told Hindustan Times, ¡°I told her I do not give her permission to do [the] film because I have not chosen her¡ In Switzerland, we send legal notices very simply. I sent her an email which is accepted there as legal.¡± Asked if she received a reply, Sheela shared, ¡°No, never.¡±
¡°Not even a courtesy letter that they received my notice but that¡¯s not an issue, maybe she never had the opportunity to meet me or make time to meet me and it is no big issue... not everybody has the time to meet me.¡±
Why does Ma Sheela Anand want Alia to play the lead in her biopic?
In the same HT interview, she had said, ¡°I saw bits of a film that my sister was watching, and I thought, I looked like her when I was young. I asked my sister, ¡®Did I look like her when I was young? Do you remember? And she said, ¡®Yes, you do¡¯. I feel she has the spunk in her that I had. Spunk is very necessary and it is very natural, it is not artificial, not cosmetic, it is genuine.¡±
The one in which Alia was supposedly starring was announced as a series in 2021 by Shakun Batra. However, he averted his focus on Gehraiyaan later.
Batra was the executive producer of "Searching for Sheela," a documentary about Sheela's visit to India, available on Netflix. This film also featured one of Sheela¡¯s interviews by Karan Johar. Sheela rose to fame through the Netflix true-crime series "Wild Wild Country," which chronicled Osho's influence in the US and the legal issues faced by Sheela and the commune members.
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