Jun 15, 2025 01:46 PM IST

Zohran Mamdani, an Indian-origin Democrat, goals to turn out to be New York’s first Muslim and Indian-American mayor, difficult Andrew Cuomo.

Indian-origin Democrat Zohran Mamdani has been turning heads within the 2025 New York mayoral race, taking up incumbent Andrew Cuomo with the hope of changing into the town’s first Muslim and Indian-American mayor.

The 33-year-old democratic socialist is the son of famend Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair.(Instagram/throwingfit, https://www.aaartsalliance.org/)

The 33-year-old democratic socialist is the son of famend Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair and Ugandan educational Mahmood Mamdani. As his marketing campaign features momentum, Mamdani has cleverly woven Bollywood references and Hindi into his outreach to New York’s numerous voter base.

Appearing on the Throwing Fits podcast, Mamdani was requested: “Is your filmmaker mother disappointed that you are filming all your social media content on an iPhone and in 16×9?” Mamdani laughed earlier than revealing that, removed from being dissatisfied, Nair is at all times thinking about his marketing campaign’s video manufacturing.

“She asks me ‘Why aren’t you sending me cuts?’,” Mamdani mentioned. He added that his mom even jokes concerning the high quality of his viral movies: “She was telling somebody, ‘His stuff is so good, people are asking if I am making it.'”

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Nair has brazenly celebrated her son’s political rise. After Mamdani received his election to the New York State Assembly, she posted on X: “And Zohran is in! Change is gonna come.”

Mamdani’s distinctive marketing campaign fashion consists of one significantly viral video shot completely in Hindi, amassing tens of millions of views on social media. The video riffs off scenes and dialogues from Amitabh Bachchan’s 1975 basic Deewar, with Mamdani cheekily transforming the enduring line “mere pass maa hai” to inform voters that they’re what he has.

Beyond his artistic campaigning, Mamdani has laid out an formidable progressive platform: guaranteeing housing for all New Yorkers, eliminating money bail, banning solitary confinement, fixing the MTA, ending office discrimination, and championing social, racial, financial, and environmental justice.

Born in Kampala, Uganda, Mamdani moved to New York City together with his household on the age of seven and has referred to as the town residence ever since.

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