The controversial documentary about the gang-rape happened in Delhi, India has about 300,000 viewers while Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto will attend the screening on March 9.
The "India's Daughter" documentary had an audience of 286,000 viewers, a 1.9 percent share of the audience between 10pm and 11pm on Wednesday, The Guardian reported.
The site added that "India's Daughter" documentary has been banned to broadcast in India and prompting the BAFTA award winning director Leslee Udwin to call Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, to "deal with the unceremonious silencing of the film."
According to the official website of Plan UK, the "India's Daughter" documentary took two years to make and it is based on the gang-rape in December 2012 of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh.
Udwin remember her days as she is working on the said documentary as an "Arab spring for gender equality. "What impelled me to leave my husband and two children for two years while I made the film in India was not so much the horror of the rape as the inspiring and extraordinary eruption on the streets," she said. "They were protesting for my rights and the rights of all women, that gives me optimism."
The "India's Daughter" documentary charts the tragic sequence of events which began with a trip to a Delhi cinema on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, when Singh accompanied by a male friend, watch the movie "The Life of Pi." At around 8:30pm the two got into an off-duty charter bus. As the bus travelled, Singh was raped by four men including a minor. Her body was thrown on the street and she died after 13 agonizing days staying in the hospital.
Meanwhile, on March 9, actresses Steel and Pinto will attend the screening in New York, launching the "India's Daughter" hosted at the 20th anniversary of the UN Forth World Conference for Women in association with Plan International and Vital Voices Global Partnership, as the Deccan Chronicle reported.
The "India's Daughter" documentary will be aired in seven other countries including Norway, Canada and Switzerland to mark the International Women's Day.
