Neecha Nagar (1946)
September 29, 1946Release Date
Plot.
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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
Rashid Anwar
Producer
Ravi Shankar
Music
Bidyapati Ghosh
Director of Photography
N.R. Chauhan
Editor
Kameshwar Segal
Art Direction
Details.
Release DateSeptember 29, 1946
Original Nameनीचा नगर
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 2m
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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.