Neecha Nagar
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| Directed by | Chetan Anand |
| Produced by | Rashid Anwar A. Halim |
| Written by | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas |
| Story by | Hayatullah Ansari |
| Starring | Rafiq Ahmed Uma Anand Kamini Kaushal Rafi Peer Hamid Butt Zohra Sehgal |
| Music by | Ravi Shankar |
| Cinematography | Bidyapati Ghosh |
Production company | India Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
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Neecha Nagar (English: Lowly City) is a 1946 Hindi film, directed by Chetan Anand, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Hayatullah Ansari, and produced by Rashid Anwar. 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 Ahmed, Kamini Kaushal, Rafi Peer, Hamid Butt, and Zohra Sehgal.
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.[1] It is the only Indian film to have ever been awarded a Palme d'Or.
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.[2][3]
Neecha Nagar is the debut film of actress Kamini Kaushal and for Ravi Shankar as a music director.
Cast
- Rafiq Ahmed as Balraj
- Uma Anand as Maya
- Kamini Kaushal as Rupa
- Rafi Peer as Sarkar
- S.P. Bhatia as Sagar
- Hamid Butt as Yaqoob Chacha
- Mohan Saigal as Raza
- Zohra Sehgal as Bhabi
- B. M. Vyas as Balraj's brother
Awards
- 1946 Cannes Film Festival
- Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
Citations
- ↑ Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939-54)
- ↑ History will never forget Chetan Anand Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine 13 June 2007.
- ↑ Maker of innovative, meaningful movies The Hindu, 15 June 2007.
References
- Neecha Nagar at the New York Times Archived 17 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Remembering Chetan Anand and Neecha Nagar Archived 27 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Hindustan Times, 29 September 2007
External links
- Neecha Nagar on IMDb Search this movie on
- Neecha Nagar on YouTube
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