Zohran Mamdani told director mom Mira Nair to pass on Harry Potter movie - The Indian-American filmmaker had the opportunity ...

Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist and state assemblyman, appears poised to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination ...

The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel of the same name, follows the journey of Gogol Ganguli, the son of Bengali ...

Mira Nair is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who worked with a string of A-listers, including Academy Award winners Denzel ...

Zohran Mamdani convinced his mom, Mira Nair, to reject directing Harry Potter for The Namesake, changing cinema and honoring ...

Zohran Mamdani played an important role behind the making of The Namesake, starring late Irrfan Khan, Tabu and Kal Penn.

According to Nair, Warner Bros. approached her to direct “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” after seeing her 2004 film “Vanity Fair,” starring Reese Witherspoon.

I interviewed Zohran Mamdani’s mom once. She told me that she’d had an offer to direct HARRY POTTER but he told her she ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Indian-origin nominee for New York City Mayor, has played a key role in his mother, director Mira Nair’s career, having even persuaded her to turn down a Harry Potter film.

That 2006 movie, which focused on a family of first-generation Indian immigrants, was further shaped by the future mayoral candidate when he convinced his mom to watch Harold and Kumar Go to White ...