Wanted: Dead or Alive (1984) User Reviews (3)

Indian Stuff + Western Spaghetti

[ravisinger86 · 7/10 · 22 December 2016]

Wanted: Dead Or Alive Directed By Ambrish Sangal is An Action Adventure Thriller. Plot is Taken From Italian Movie God Forgives...I Don't. Most Of The Screenplay is Exactly Copied. Romance & Comedy Which Makes The Movie More Interesting & Engrossing. Direction is Good. Editing is Fine. Action is Similar To Any Western Spaghetti Movie.

Vikram(Mithun) is a Forest Officer. He is Married To Angela (Dipti Naval). Kaher Singh(Om Shiv Puri) A Bandit Kills Angela While Running From Cops. Vikram Comes To Know He Retaliates. Kaher Singh Dies. Vikram is Framed For Heist. He Spends Three Years Imprison.

He is Again Accused When A Train Robbery Takes Place Which Carried Fair Amount Of Gold. Few Police Officials Die. One of Them Happen To Be Father Of Neeta(Tina Munim). Neeta Meets Vikram. Seduces Him. Bhim Singh(Shammi Kapoor) is After Gold. He Informs Vikram, Kaher Singh is Alive. Trio Are Looking For Kahar Singh Now ?

Acting By Mithun is Perfect . Shammi Kapoor With His Comic Timing is Brilliant. Om Shivpuri As Kahar Singh is Extra Ordinary. Tina Munim is Good With Her Dialogues.

Music By Bappi Lahiri is Awesome. Best Part is Kishore Kumar Singing For Shammi Kapoor. "Jaani Jaani" & "Tumsa Nahi Dekha" By Kishore Are Too Good. "Raahi Hoon Main" By Bappi Lahiri is a Soft Slow Track.

Wanted Alive Or Dead.

[morrison-dylan-fan · 7/10 · 25 December 2020]

With a friend coming round in a few days on Christmas who is a fan of Bollywood and Westerns,I decided to look for a Curry Western we could both watch. Checking round online, I was pleased to find a rather obscure title,leading to me putting up a wanted poster.

View on the film:

Sitting in the saddle for two and a half hours, the screenplay by co-writer/(with Nusrat Sayyed & V.K. Sharma) director Ambrish Sangal impressively keep the pistol-whip action moving at a breakneck pace, thanks to wonderfully oddball twists such as the main baddie Kaher Singh staging his own death, via giving the gunmen fake bullets (talk about being prepared!) and honest cop Vikram finding he must cross the line,after being framed for the murder of his wife (which was done by Kaher.)

Lassoing gloriously funky Bollywood song numbers, director Sangal & cinematographer Pramod Mittal duel weld ultra-stylised wah-wah button bashing zoom-ins on the superbly kitsch "dhishoom!"-soundtrack punch-up, grooving to Bappi Lahiri's banging dark synch score.

Bringing Vikram out of jail in search for revenge, Sangal gives this Curry Western some spice, by matching the kitsch with a sharp grit in whip-pans flying towards cowboy Vikram beating down Kehar Singh with a surprising amount of blood spray across the Indian Wild West.

Cackling at the success of his own evil plan, Om Shivpuri gives a gleeful turn as Kehar,whilst Tina Ambani plays on the Wild West dame image as Neeta, who underhandedly joins in the fight for revenge, charged by Mithun Chakraborty's giving Vikram a live-wire ruggedness,as he finds himself wanted, dead or alive.

wanted Mithun Gangster Kishore Kumar western style

[wasif-10737 · 10/10 · 23 September 2017]

vikram (Mithun chakraborty )is a Forest Officer.He is Married To Angela (Dipti Naval). Kaher Singh(Om Shiv Puri) A Bandit Kills Angela While Running From Cops. Vikram Comes To Know He Retaliates. Kaher Singh Dies. Vikram is Framed For Heist. He Spends Three Years Imprison. The film is made in the style of a spaghetti western.to be very honest the performance of Mithun chakraborty is absolutely brilliant.super song sung by Kisore Kumar For great Mithun chakraborty:)one of my favorite movie of Mithun in the 80's.