Plus: The popular stage musical ‘Sangeet Manapmaan’ gets a big-screen adaptation. Here are this week's top reads from The Reel.

This is a week for adaptations and reworkings. Subodh Bhave retools the popular stage musical Sangeet Manapmaan as a movie. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s magnificent soundtrack emerges as the main reason to watch Sangeet Manapmaan, with the songs destined to have a life of their own.

Hollywood stylist Robert Eggers puts his own stamp on the classic silent film Nosferatu. Fans of vampire movies might also wish to revisit Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which has a sexiness and playfulness that bypasses Eggers. Meanwhile, how have Indian filmmakers approached the blood-sucking demon?

‘Nosferatu’ review: Mesmerising visuals and a defanged vampire

Robert Eggers’s remake of FW Murnau’s silent-era classic stars Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

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Dracula in India: How filmmakers localised – and tamed – the vampire

The January 10 release of Robert Eggers’s ‘Nosferatu’ is a reminder of our very own undead.

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Subodh Bhave on ‘Sangeet Manapmaan’ musical: ‘A timeless story updated for today’s audiences’

Subodh Bhave’s version of the popular Marathi play will be out on January 10.

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‘Sangeet Manapmaan’ review: This period musical could have been an album

Starring Subodh Bhave, Vaidehi Parsahurami and Sumeet Raghvan, with music by Shankar-Ehsaan Loy.

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Start the week with a film: ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ is most charming

The stop-motion animated film is out on Netflix.

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‘Black Warrant’ review: Grim show about Tihar jailers rarely lets up

The series created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh is out on Netflix.

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‘Game Changer’ review: A deafening and dated vigilante thriller

Shankar’s film stars Ram Charan, Kiara Advani, SJ Suryah, Anjali, Srikanth, Samuthirakani, Sunil and Naveen Chandra.

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Bhang, gaanja, Bollywood and the rapid change in India’s cultural zeitgeist

An excerpt from ‘Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India’, by Karan Madhok.

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How Bollywood lost its Goan rhythm

Goans changed the soundscape of Indian film music, but their contributions were erased, says ‘Nachom-ia Kumpasar’ director Bardroy Barretto.

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