Jeeva is an Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by Syed Noor

Syed Noor

Syed Noor is a Pakistani film director based in Lahore. He is considered as one of the best filmmaker of Pakistan and is famous for making issue-based films wrapped in entertainment...

. It introduced Babar Ali

Babar Ali

Babar Ali is a Pakistani film and television actor. He comes from the sindh province in Pakistan, more precisely the city of Karachi.He started his career with Drama Mohammad bin Qasim,later on he moved towards Movies...

 and Resham

Resham

Resham is a Pakistani film, television and theater actress based in Lahore. She debuted with Syed Noor's film, Jeeva in 1995 and later went on to star in a string of commercial hits in the late 1990s. She was noted for her performance as the upcoming model in Samina Peerzada's Inteha...

 into Lollywood

Lollywood

Lollywood refers to the Pakistani film industry based in the city of Lahore. The word "Lollywood" was first coined in the summer of 1989 in the now defunct magazine "Glamour" published from Karachi by a gossip columnist Saleem Nasir. The film industry in Lahore started in 1929 with the opening of...

 and turned them into stars. The film was also acclaimed at the foreign festivals where it was screened.
The shrine of Hazrat Ayub Ansari in Istanbul in Turkey was pictured in this film.
Nadeem played the title role and two new faces were seen on silver screen, Resham and Babur Ali, but this film was a big milestone for Anwar Rafi who was struggling in many years.
Famous folk singer Shoukat Ali sang his only duet song with Madam Noor Jehan.