Priyanka Chopra Said to Play Ma Anand Sheela in Amazon Movie

Priyanka Chopra Jonas will play Ma Anand Sheela, the former personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh / Osho, who was sentenced to 20 years — but paroled after 39 months — for her role in the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack, in a movie for Amazon Studios that is simply called Sheela.

(It will likely be available on Prime Video in India, though that hasn't always been the case in the past.) Oscar-winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) is set to direct Sheela, off a script by newcomer Nick Yarborough.

Chopra will also produce Sheela through her Purple Pebble America banner, in addition to Levinson via his Baltimore Pictures along with Jason Sosnoff, and David Permut of Permut Presentations.