From classic movies with live music to Dia de los Muertos events, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend.

“It’s actually the first Diwali I’ve seen in years where no superstar is coming out with a film. They always reserved this date,” says Sanjeev Kumar Bijli, executive director at PVR INOX Ltd.

Between ‘Task’ and ‘Mare of Easttown’—plus too-many-to-count scripts that you didn’t know came from his pen—the TV creator ...