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 ...

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

During his meteoric rise to become the presumptive Democratic nominee for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani garnered ...

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

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 ...

Mayor nominee of NYC, Zohran Mamdani, had convinced his mother and talented director, Mira Nair, to turn down 'Harry Potter' ...

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

The indie flick, which starred Washington as a carpet cleaner named Demetrius alongside Sarita Choudhury as Mina, who relocates to Mississippi with her family from Uganda, was Nair’s second film after ...

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.

The 33-year-old Democrat nominee for New York Mayoral election also convinced his mother to cast Kal Penn in the role of ...

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.