'Mankind has awoken') is a 1959 Hindi-language social drama film, produced and directed by Shakti Samanta, and written by Nabendu Ghosh and Vrajendra Gaur, based on a story by Saroj Mitra.

The film stars Madhubala, Sunil Dutt, Nasir Hussain, Bipin Gupta and Madan Puri in lead roles.

It was a tiring yet refreshing experience to get so close to nature and witness the lives of hundreds of people who are helping to build the new India.Early in his career, Samanta had directed only crime thrillers including Inspector (1956) and Howrah Bridge (1958).

[3] Insan Jaag Utha was a hit with audience and eventually emerged as the thirteenth highest-grossing film of 1959, taking ₹0.52 crore at the box office.

In an interview he gave several years after the film's release, he recalled Insan Jaag Utha as a "mediocre success".