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{{infobox film
| name           = Jeeva
| image          = Jeeva (1988).jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Pratap Pothen]]
| writer         = A. L. Narayanan (dialogues)
| screenplay     = Pratap Pothen
| story          = Pratap Pothen
| producer       = [[T. G. Thyagarajan]]<br />G. Saravanan
| starring       = [[Sathyaraj]]<br />[[Amala Akkineni|Amala]]
| cinematography = [[Ashok Kumar (cinematographer)|Ashok Kumar]]
| editing        = [[B. Lenin]]<br />[[V. T. Vijayan]]<ref>https://kalkionline.com/kalkionline_archive/imagegallery/archiveimages/kalki/1988/jul/10-07-1988/p15.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref>
| music          = [[Gangai Amaran]]
| studio         = [[Sathya Jyothi Films]]
| released       = {{film date|1988|7|1|df=y}}
| country        = India
| language       = Tamil
}}
'''''Jeeva''''' is a 1988 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[action film]], directed by [[Pratap Pothen]], starring [[Sathyaraj]] and [[Amala Akkineni|Amala]]. Amala created a sensation by appearing in a [[bikini]] onscreen.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 July 2014 |title=Bikini babes of Tamil cinema on Bikini Day |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/photo-features/bikini-babes-of-tamil-cinema-on-bikini-day/bikini-babes-of-tamil-cinema-on-bikini-day/photostory/37833883.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201050139/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/photo-features/bikini-babes-of-tamil-cinema-on-bikini-day/photostory/37833883.cms |archive-date=1 February 2022 |access-date=6 September 2021 |website=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> The film was remade in [[Hindi]] as [[Baaz (1992 film)|Baaz]] (1992).

== Plot ==
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Jeeva is a carefree unemployed youth living with his widowed mother and sister. When they are murdered, he seeks revenge.

== Cast ==
*[[Sathyaraj]] as Jeeva
*[[Amala Akkineni|Amala]] as Geetha
*[[Janagaraj]]  as Dilli
*[[Nizhalgal Ravi]] as Anand
*[[Captain Raju]] as DSP Dhairiyam
*[[Pradeep Shakthi]] as  Somnath
*[[R. S. Shivaji]] as Henchmen
*[[Anandaraj]] as main henchmen
*[[Lalu Alex]] as C.J. Dass
*[[Silk Smitha]] as Monika
*[[Oru Viral Krishna Rao]]
*[[Thalapathy Dinesh]]
*[[Raasi (actress)|Raasi]]  as sister

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack was composed by [[Gangai Amaran]]. Lyrics by him and [[Pulamaipithan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jeeva (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP |url=https://music.apple.com/ca/album/jeeva-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-ep/1161550096 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906103857/https://music.apple.com/ca/album/jeeva-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-ep/1161550096 |archive-date=6 September 2021 |access-date=6 September 2021 |website=[[Apple Music]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jeeva Tamil Film LP Vinyl Record by Gangai Ameran |url=https://mossymart.com/product/jeeva-tamil-film-lp-vinyl-record-by-gangai-ameran/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906103413/https://mossymart.com/product/jeeva-tamil-film-lp-vinyl-record-by-gangai-ameran/ |archive-date=6 September 2021 |access-date=6 September 2021 |website=Mossymart}}</ref>

{{Track listing
| headline = 
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Abracadabra
| note1 = 
| lyrics1 = 
| music1 = 
| extra1 = [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]]
| length1 = 
| title2 = Hero Vandhachu
| note2 = 
| lyrics2 = 
| music2 = 
| extra2 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, [[K. S. Chithra]]
| length2 = 
| title3 = Pattuvanna Rosa
| note3 = 
| lyrics3 = 
| music3 = 
| extra3 = K. S. Chithra
| length3 = 
| title4 = Sangeetham
| note4 = 
| lyrics4 = 
| music4 = 
| extra4 = [[Malaysia Vasudevan]], [[S. N. Surendar]]
| length4 = 
| title5 = Thagudu
| note5 = 
| lyrics5 = 
| music5 = 
| extra5 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
| length5 = 
| title6 = O Thendrale
| note6 = 
| lyrics6 = 
| music6 = 
| extra6 = [[K. J. Yesudas]]
| length6 = 
}}

== Release and reception ==
''Jeeva'' was released on 1 July 1988.<ref name="ReleaseDate">{{Cite news |date=1 July 1988 |title=Jeeva |pages=5 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19880701&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=9 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 22 July that month, N. Krishnaswamy of ''[[The Indian Express]]'' said, "Pratap Pothen, in his attempt to put together a commercial yarn for Satya Movies, totters between two stools of varied height. On the one hand he tries to give a modish feel to his film – the jazzy interiors, the costumes that his actors wear, the five-star hotel-ad agency ambiance – but on the other he has to give a long rope to hero Satyaraj's attempts to play to a plebeian constituency. Pothen ends up being stylish and moronic. This makes an incongruous mixture."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krishnaswamy |first=N. |date=22 July 1988 |title=Jeeva |pages=5 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19880722&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=10 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|tt0254445}}

{{Pratap K. Pothen}}
{{Sathya Jyothi Films}}

[[Category:1980s masala films]]
[[Category:1980s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:1988 action films]]
[[Category:1988 films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Pratap Pothen]]
[[Category:Films scored by Gangai Amaran]]
[[Category:Indian action thriller films]]
[[Category:Indian films about revenge]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Tamil films remade in other languages]]