Priyanka Chopra never took permission from me: Mother Anand Sheela said on her biopic – Alia Bhatt was always my choice

Two biopics were announced in Bollywood on mother Anand Sheela, who was once Osho’s personal secretary. While Priyanka Chopra was going to play the lead role in one, Alia Bhatt was going to play the lead role in the other. However, both these projects never started but Sheela wanted Alia Bhatt to play her character.

Mother Anand Sheela first became Osho’s disciple and later his personal secretary.

I looked like Alia in teenage: Mother Anand Sheela
Recently, in an interview given to YouTube channel Dastaan, mother Anand Sheela talked about this. Sheela said, ‘Priyanka did not take permission from me before making the biopic. Even the director did not talk to me. I came to know about this from the journalist.

However, my choice for my biopic was Alia Bhatt, because I looked like her when I was young.

Priyanka and Alia were approached for the role of mother Anand Sheela in different projects.

Mother Sheela had sent a mail to Priyanka
Earlier, in an interview given to Hindustan Times, Sheela had told that she had written a mail to Priyanka Chopra to stop a project being made on her. I told him that I have not given you permission to film me because I have not chosen you.

Director Karan Johar had interviewed mother Sheela in a segment of ‘Searching for Sheela’.

Shakun Batra was going to make a web series about Alia
Director Shakun Batra was going to make a series based on Mother Anand Sheela with Alia Bhatt in 2021, but he postponed it due to the film ‘Gahraiyan’. American director Barry Levinson was going to work on a project based on Sheela with Priyanka.

However, Batra later produced a documentary named ‘Searching for Sheela’. It was based on Sheela’s Indian visit a few years ago. In one of its segments, Karan Johar also interviewed mother Sheela.

In 1981, on the insistence of Sheela, Osho built an ashram in the US.

Osho shifted to US on the request of Sheela
Born in Vadodara, Sheela went to America in 1967 at the age of 18 to study. She got married there and returned to India with her husband in 1972. In search of spirituality, both of them reached Osho’s ashram and became his disciples. Later Sheela became Osho’s personal secretary.

In 1981, Sheela advised Osho to leave the country and build an ashram in the US, after which Osho developed a community named Rajneeshpuram in the state of Oregon.