Jeeva is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language action film, directed by Pratap Pothen, starring Sathyaraj and Amala. Amala created a sensation by appearing in a bikini onscreen.^[2] The film was remade in Hindi as Baaz (1992).^{[citation needed]}

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

The soundtrack was composed by Gangai Amaran. Lyrics by him and Pulamaipithan.^[3][4]

Jeeva was released on 1 July 1988.^[5] 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."^[6]