INDIA, Nov. 28 -- There comes a moment in every pop culture era when we must collectively accept that a phenomenon is winding down and prepare ourselves emotionally like Joyce Byers trying not to cry while pretending everything is normal. With Stranger Things now in its final season, the world is bracing for one last round of the perpetual war against evil. It's the end of an era, and we are all children of Hawkins. Let's speculate for fun right now how Stranger Things cast would look like was remade in India.

Why? The urge to remix, redo, reboot, remake, reimagine, or whatever the new buzzword Hollywood uses to justify spending millions on nostalgia is a predictable human reaction to endings. Particularly big, international, pop-culture...