---
title: 'Neecha Nagar (1946)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Chetan Anand'
released: '1946-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 122
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'British Raj'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/neecha-nagar-1946'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154942/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Neecha Nagar (1946)

1946 · 122 min · Drama · British Raj

Original title: नीचा नगर

## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Chetan Anand](https://cinepixo.com/people/chetan-anand)
- **Screenplay:** [Khwaja Ahmad Abbas](https://cinepixo.com/people/khwaja-ahmad-abbas)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ravi Shankar](https://cinepixo.com/people/ravi-shankar)

## Cast

- [Kamini Kaushal](https://cinepixo.com/people/kamini-kaushal)
- [Uma Anand](https://cinepixo.com/people/uma-anand)

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