MUMBAI: Charlie’s Angels star Lucy Liu’s ready to release film Meena is not finding any buyers in the country. Distributors here feel that a serious film like this doesn’t have a market in the country.

The 30-minute narrative-style feature tracks the true story of a real-life sex worker Meena Hasina, as shown in the book, Half The Sky by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

In actuality, Hasina was abducted from her village in Bihar at the age of 10 and brought to Mumbai where she grew up in a brothel. After escaping from the brothel, she made it her life’s mission to help as many of her sex-worker colleagues to escape from a life of prostitution as possible.

The film has been shot mainly in the narrow alleys of Versova Village and at a bungalow in Andheri.

Back in 2010, Liu visited India discreetly to shoot her directorial debut film Meena that is also one of six features that make up the US tele-series, Half the Sky.