Neecha Nagar
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Director Chetan Anand Screenplay Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Language Hindi | 7.8/10 IMDb Music director Ravi Shankar Duration Country India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Hayatulla Ansari (story) Release date 1946 Cast Kamini Kaushal (Rupa), Zohra Sehgal (Bhabi), Rafiq Anwar (Balraj), Uma Anand (Maya), Rafi Peer (Sarkar)Similar movies Ravi Shankar composed the music for Neecha Nagar and Dharti Ke Lal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Neecha Nagar (Hindi: नीचा नगर Nīcā nagar, English: Lowly City) is a 1946 Hindi film directed by Chetan Anand. Written by Hayatullah Ansari and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 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 written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. It starred Chetan Anand's wife Uma Anand, Rafiq Ahmed, Kamini Kaushal, Rafi Peer and Zohra Sehgal.
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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.
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Overview
It was based on a Hindi story, Neecha Nagar, written by Hayatullah Ansari, which in turn was inspired by Russian writer Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths. It took an expressionist look at the gulf between the rich and poor in society.
Neecha Nagar is the debut film of actress Kamini Kaushal and for Ravi Shankar as a music director.
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Neecha Nagar WikipediaNeecha Nagar IMDb Neecha Nagar themoviedb.org