Jeeva

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Cast:    Vishnu, Sri Divya, Soori, Harish Uthaman, Vinoth Kishan
Direction:    Suseenthiran
Music:    D.Imman

Sports and motivation are two sides of a coin, and when they are made into a film most often they end up inspiring the audience. With a director who knows what he is doing at the helm, the film must surely reach the movie goers with the right attitude. Jeeva is director Suseenthiran’s next project and is quite close to his heart as he says, for its emotional content and its captivating subject.

With cricket as the heart of the movie, the movie revolves around friendship, sentiment, love, pain and a lot of cricketing. Vishnu the real life cricketer is the hero of this movie, one would say its only ideal that he essays this role than anyone else. Sri Divya who last appeared in Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam is playing the leading lady of this movie, with Soori, Harish and Vinoth forming the rest of the cast.

The world is full of talented youth who aspire to make it big into their respective fields, however end up into the quicksand of politics many a time. And who better than the voice of a sports person can be better can make justice, after all they form the majority of people who fail to make into the prime league owing to cheap politics. This forms as the primary plot of “Jeeva” and Suseenthiran has weaved out a novel cricket movie around this with Vishnu as the hero.

Vishnu’s capabilities as a cricketer is something everyone in the town is aware and he also helped our Kollywood team through in the cine cricket league held over the years. The film itself is inspired by some real life incidents and director Suseenthiran has claimed as Jeeva to be one of his best works till date.

The film’s marketing is already in full flow with major media houses starting to exhibit the movie’s stills. Imman has composed the music for this movie, with such a powerful storyline the BGM should make waves and knowing Imman, this will surely be a test.

The real hero of the movie will be the story, which is about the life of the sports people which matters more than the matches they play. Suseenthiran has chosen a story that trots around rejection and how to deal with it. Well, the hype has made its mark! Now for the movie to come out and hit sixes across theatres!

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Jeeva Movie Review

Director: Suseenthiran
Cast: Vishnu, Sri Divya, Soori
Music: D Imman

Suseenthiran’s ‘Jeeva’ is a romantic love story set against the backdrop of Chennai city cricket and the politics of selection. The director has a connect with sports based films as his debut ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’,was based on Kabaddi.

In ‘Jeeva’ the director mixes commercial cinema romance, family sentiments with a guy’s aspiration to become a test cricketer against all odds. Our hero ‘Jeeva’ (Vishnu Vishal) is hooked to cricket from a young age, and wants to be another Sachin. He comes from a lower middle class family, and struggles to buy a cricket bat, is thrown out of his classroom for playing cricket.

His mother died when he was three and his father is a habitual drinker and is brought up by his loving neighbour (Charly) and his family. He falls in love with Jenny (Sri Divya) his neighbour and there is strong parental objection. Jenny is taken away by her parents and Jeeva throws himself into cricket as he is eyeing state selection. Will Jeeva make it as the selection system is loaded against him, forms the rest of the story.

Jeeva exposes the caste system prevailing in Tamil Nadu cricket selection. Suseenthiran has shown that all those who make the grade to Ranji Trophy and subsequently test cricket are from a particular community. They dominate the cricket scene and control the games administration and selection process in the state.

In one of the scenes, Jeeva’s coach says – “14 out of 16 players who have represented Tamil Nadu and later played test cricket are from this community.” How caste determines your selection in all formats of cricket selection is the basic thread of the story. The director emphasises that a guy from lower strata of society and belonging to a backward class finds it difficult to break into the game in the state.

Suseenthiran smartly points out that true talent is often neglected. However the entire first half is devoted to romance and songs including an unwanted bar song. D Imman’s music is top class and his BGM is terrific especially in second half. Vishnu as Jeeva has given a very good performance and since he has played cricket, the characterisation has come out well. Soori provides some laughs as a veteran fast bowler trying to make it.

‘Jeeva’ is sure to provide inspiration to many youngsters with similar cricket dreams and aspirations. On the whole, it is a nice entertaining film, and another feather on the director’s cap.