Jeeva is a Hindi (Bollywood) Action film released on 12 December 1986. Though the film is a routine Dacoit Drama, it became a commercial hit in 1986.

Cast and Crew

Raj N. Sippy is the Director, and Romu N. Sippy is the Producer of Jeeva.

Waman Bhonsle and Gurudutt Shirali are the Film Editors, P. D. Mehra is the Story Writer, Vinay Shukla is the Dialogue Writer, Anwar Siraj is the Cinematographer, Gulzar is the Lyricist, and Rahul Dev Burman is the Music Director of Jeeva.

Cast

Sanjay Dutt, Mandakini, Amjad Khan, Sachin, Pran, and Gulshan Grover, play pivotal roles.

Shakti Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Shreeram Lagoo, Vidya Sinha, Beena Banerjee, Satyendra Kapoor (Satyen Kappu), Rita Rani Kaul, and Harish Magon play supporting roles in Jeeva.

Budget and Box Office

The tentative budget of Jeeva was 1.40 Crore INR. The film did well commercially and earned approximately 7.20 Crore INR at the Worldwide Box Office. Jeeva became one of the Highest Grossing Hindi Movies of 1986.

Movie Plot

Main Characters

Thakur (Shreeram Lagoo) lives in a village with his wife (Vidya Sinha). Gopal Singh (Sachin) is a loyal young man and works as a Domestic Help for Thakur and his wife. He has a sister (Beena Banerjee).

Lala Lalchand (Pran) and his son (Gulshan Grover) live in the same village. They torture the village people as and when possible.

Jeevan (Sanjay Dutt) is the only son of Thakur. He is taking police training in the city and loves Nalini (Mandakini), the sister of an honest Police Inspector, Dushyant Singh (Anupam Kher).

Jagir Singh (Amjad Khan) is a morally good dacoit and gang leader. Lakhan (Shakti Kapoor) is also a part of the dacoit gang.

Story

Lala (Pran) and his son (Gulshan Grover) do not like Thakur because Thakur takes a stand for the villagers. Thakur helps anybody who comes to his house for help.

In a parallel story, a police team is after Jagira (Amjad Khan) and shoots him with a bullet. Jagira seeks shelter at Thakur's house. After initial reluctance, Thakur agrees to shelter him. Jagira owes Thakur and promises to help him when needed.

In the meantime, the evil son of Lala rapes the sister (Beena Banerjee) of Gopal (Sachin). Thakur is the prime witness and decides to give testimony against Lala's son. Lala bribes the inquiry officer and makes the house of Thakur on fire.

While the house is on the burn, Jeevan (Sanjay Dutt) returns from the city after completing his police training and finds his house burning. Jeevan's mother dies, and his father is on the death bead. Thakur asks Jeevan to call the police officer so that he can record his dying statement.

The police officer has taken a bribe from Lala and is not ready to go with Jeevan. In the meantime, Thaku dies too. The enraged Jeevan kills the corrupt police officer and gets arrested.

The biggest twist

The loyal servant Gopal Singh (Sachin) seeks the help of Jagira (Amjad Khan). Jagira rescues Jeeva from the police. Jeevan now becomes Jeeva, joins the dacoit gang with Gopal, and soon becomes the right hand of Jagira. It makes Lakhan (Shakti Kapoor) envy him.

Inspector Dushyan (Anupam Kher) wants to arrest Jeeva and Jagira. On the other hand, Jeeva wants to avenge the death of his parents from Lala and his son.

What happens next is the rest of the story of Jeeva.