Directed by: Himanshu Malhotra and Sabina Kidwai 

The coral reefs are under threat from an endles string of assaults- souevenir markets, aquariums, coral constructions...

Diminishing Resources seeks to sensitise the audience to these invisible crimes. Diminishing resources – Under Threat, Under Water, a film that features the coral reefs along India’s coastline and the Lakshadweep and Andaman Islands, is an eye-opener as it also poignantly captures the impact of man’s reckless activities on these fragile habitats and ecosystems.

Do you know that every time we gingerly place a shell, coral or sea urchin in the showcase of our drawing room as a curio, we are abetting a crime? A crime as per the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, of destruction of coral reefs and of various endange red marine creatures.

Produced by wildlife filmmaker and environmentalist Himanshu Malhotra, with scripting and editing done by his wife Sabina Kidwai, the 13-minute film is the outcome of the U.K. Film Fellowships and Wildlife, 2006, offered by the British Council and the U.K. Government that saw seven filmmakers bring various aspects of wildlife into focus.

“Coral reefs are the rainforests of the seas, the nurseries of life,” says Himanshu. And just how? The Indian coral reefs along the 8000 km coastline is home to molluscs, fishes and thousands of marine life forms, reveals the beautifully captured film. For, the reefs are a safe breeding ground, a resting place and even a permanent home where some species live and grow embedded in them.

The coral reefs rife with life forms are excavated and even blasted with dynamite to plunder shells, varieties of coral, from the big boulder type to the small flowery ones, and sea urchins.