Karan Johar receives flak for interviewing and sharing selfie with Ma Anand Sheela

Filmmaker Karan Johar recently interviewed Ma Anand Sheela, the infamous secretary and spokesperson of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh aka Osho. Post the interview Karan took to his Instagram handle to share a selfie with Ma Anand Sheela along with a post. In the post, Karan was all praise for the 70-year-old.

He wrote, “She is fun forthright and fabulous! Dodging every answer in her inimitable fashion! She is controversial without revealing a thing! Now that’s an art! She is witty and never at a wits end!”.

Have a look at the post here.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2_y53xJvYN/

This post of Karan got likes and comments from his colleagues and friends like Alia Bhatt, Vishal Dadlani, Soni Razdan and others. Soni Razdan wrote, “Wow. Wow. Wow” and music composer Vishal Dadlani wrote, “‘Seela is a beach!’ said the most venerable Osho. She must’ve done something right.” Also, Karan’s fans poured in with their comments praising and congratulating him for taking Ma Anand Sheela’s interview.

But a section of netizens didn’t like Karan interviewing such a controversial personality. Trolls ripped him apart on the picture he posted. While one user called both “scandalous”, there was one who wrote, “Interviewing criminals, murder convict, bio-Terrorists!! Great!”

Have a look at the trolls here.

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For the uninitiated, it was because of Ma Anand Sheela that the Osho community became popular in Oregon in the US. In 1986, she was found guilty in the 1984 bioterror attack on the people of The Dalles, Oregon. She was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment but later came out on parole after serving 39 months.

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