Neecha Nagar (1946)
नीचा नगर
Wealthy landlord Sarkar decides to direct all waste into the village to make space for his real estate project. However, the poor villagers agitate against his plan and the protest is led by Balraj.
- Date of release
- 1946-09-29
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Chetan Anand
Casting
- Rafiq Anwar — Balraj
- Uma Anand — Maya
- Kamini Kaushal — Rupa
- Rafi Peer — Sarkar
- S.P. Bhatia — Sagar
- Hameed Butt — Yaqoob Chacha
- Mohan Saigal — Raza
- B.M. Vyas — Bhai
- Zohra Sehgal — Bhabi
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Palme d'Or
Neecha Nagar 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 led to 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 was a Hindi film adaptation in an Indian setting of Russian writer Maxim Gorky's 1902 play The Lower Depths.
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