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Jeeva Review
- 9/27/2014 9:32:33 PM
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Cast: Vishnu Vishal, Sri Divya, Lakshman, Soori, Charlie, Marimuthu, Jeeva RaviDirection: SuseenthiranGenre: DramaDuration: 2 hours 7 minutes
Synopsis: A gifted cricketer dreams of finding a place in the state Ranji team but romance and politics in the sporting body threaten to dash his hopes.
Movie Review: In a key scene in Jeeva, the central character Jeeva tells his girlfriend Jenny that he cannot imagine a life without cricket, and he knows only too well the pain that giving up an ambition causes a person. This should give you a clue about what Suseenthiran's Jeeva is all about. It is about an aspiring cricketer who wants sporting glory and is not hesitant to shy away from the disappointments that stand in his way. For, Jeeva has been passionate about the sport ever since he was a boy.
This is proper sports drama material and Suseenthiran pads up the film with the tropes that the genre needs. So, we get Jeeva's interest in the game as a kid (he knows the price list of every kind of bat in the sports shop), his family life (ignored by his father after his mother's death, he is brought up by the caring family next door), his romance with Jenny, his new neighbour, his friendship with Ranjith, another youngster with cricketer dreams, and the politics that almost dashes his hopes.
Though it has its heart in the right place the problem with Jeeva is that it is uneven. Cricket takes a backseat every time the director decides to focus on the love angle,
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