Calcutta, Jan. 21: After Lindsay Lohan, it’s Lucy Liu. Another Hollywood actress is coming to India to shoot a film on human trafficking. Only this time, it’s a fiction film and it stars an Indian actress in the lead.
Liu, the Charlie’s Angels actress who is also famous as Kill Bill’s -Ren Ishii, has been a Unicef ambassador and has hosted a documentary for MTV in 2007, produced to raise awareness on human trafficking in Asia.
The short film, which will be Liu’s directorial debut, will have a similar theme and will be fictionalised and set in Mumbai. The film is tentatively titled Half the Sky and has Tannishtha Chatterjee in the lead.
Liu’s film will be part of a four-movies-in-one portmanteau project that will also see the directorial debut of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie.
“It’s a very big Hollywood project,” Tannishtha told The Telegraph. The actress has been the toast of the international movie circuit with films like Sarah Gavron’s Brick Lane and Dev Benegal’s Road, Movie.
Half the Sky will be shot over the next week in Mumbai and wrapped up by the end of the month. Liu’s will be the only one of the four short films to be shot in India.