Lowly City) 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.

Neecha Nagar (Lowly City) was a Hindi film adaptation in an Indian setting of Russian writer Maxim Gorky's 1902 play The Lower Depths.

It was based on a Hindi story, Neecha Nagar, written by Hayatullah Ansari, which in turn was inspired by Gorky's The Lower Depths.

[5][6] Neecha Nagar was the debut film of actress Kamini Kaushal and for Ravi Shankar as a music director.

The music of the film was composed by Ravi Shankar with lyrics by Mammohan Anand and Vishwamitra Adil.