The closest most of us have come to living underwater is watching Disney's The Little Mermaid, where the protagonist, Ariel, yearns to live a life on land. In the song Under the Sea, she is told, "The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake." And going by that, discovering life underwater is a dream for many of us humans. But thanks to filmmaker Priya Thuvassery — who made Coral Woman, a documentary that captures her journey with Uma Mani, a certified scuba diver who learned the sport at 49 — we can now come one step closer to that dream.

Adda Film Club, in association with the Centre of Media and Cultural Studies, is hosting a screening of the film, where they explore the underwater world and the threats to the coral reefs in the Gulf of Mannar, India.
The filmmaker, who has fund-raised, directed and edited several documentaries that have been recognised in national and international film festivals, will also be present for a Q&A session post the screening.