Neecha Nagar (1946)
September 29, 1946Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

Rafiq Anwar
Balraj

Uma Anand
Maya

Kamini Kaushal
Rupa

Rafi Peer
Sarkar

S.P. Bhatia
Sagar

Hameed Butt
Yaqoob Chacha

Mohan Saigal
Raza

Zohra Sehgal
Bhabi

Mohan Segal
Assistant Director

B.M. Vyas
Balraj's Elder Brother

Mohan Sehgal
Actor

Bidyapati Ghosh
Director of Photography

Rashid Anwar
Producer

N.R. Chauhan
Editor

Kameshwar Segal
Art Direction

Ravi Shankar
Music
Details.
Release DateSeptember 29, 1946
Original Nameनीचा नगर
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 42m
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Neecha Nagar (transl. Lowly City) is a 1946 Indian Hindi-language film, directed by Chetan Anand, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Hayatullah Ansari, and produced by Rashid Anwar and A. Halim. It was a pioneering effort in social realism in Indian cinema and paved the way for many such parallel cinema films by other directors, many of them also written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. It starred Chetan Anand's wife Uma Anand, with Rafiq Anwar, Kamini Kaushal, Murad, Rafi Peer, Hamid Butt, and Zohra Sehgal. Neecha Nagar (Lowly City) was a Hindi film adaptation in an Indian setting of Russian writer Maxim Gorky's 1902 play The Lower Depths.
Neecha Nagar became the first Indian film to gain recognition at the Cannes Film Festival, after it shared the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (Best Film) award at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946 with eleven of the eighteen entered feature films. It is the only Indian film to be ever awarded a Palme d'Or. Ironically, the film was never released in India. However the film was telecasted on Doordarshan, (India's national broadcaster) in 1980s.
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