Amazon Studios has decided to tell the bizarre story of Ma Anand Sheela, erstwhile secretary of Osho, who came into the limelight two years ago by the Netflix docuseries Wild, Wild Country, and Priyanka Chopra has been roped in to play the title character in the film titled Sheela.
Ma Anand Sheela was a spiritual adviser and the primary perpetrator of the 1984 Rajneeshpuram bioterror attack in Oregon. The story is almost too bizarre to believe.
Made famous by Netflix docuseries Wild, Wild Country, Sheela was the personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh aka Osho from 1981-1985 and she managed the Rajneeshpuram ashram in Wasco County, Oregon. In an effort to grow the influence of the Rajneesh movement in 1984, Sheela attempted to fill two open seats on the Wasco County Court in Oregon by bussing in hundreds of homeless people and registering them to vote. When that failed, she resorted to infecting salad bars at ten local restaurants with salmonella, causing 751 individuals to develop food poisoning. Luckily, none of the infected individuals died.
Ma Anand Sheela was a spiritual adviser and the primary perpetrator of the 1984 Rajneeshpuram bioterror attack in Oregon. The story is almost too bizarre to believe.
Made famous by Netflix docuseries Wild, Wild Country, Sheela was the personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh aka Osho from 1981-1985 and she managed the Rajneeshpuram ashram in Wasco County, Oregon. In an effort to grow the influence of the Rajneesh movement in 1984, Sheela attempted to fill two open seats on the Wasco County Court in Oregon by bussing in hundreds of homeless people and registering them to vote. When that failed, she resorted to infecting salad bars at ten local restaurants with salmonella, causing 751 individuals to develop food poisoning. Luckily, none of the infected individuals died.
