Nothing says celebration like a Bollywood song. And, Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s newly elected mayor, proved it in style! Imagine this: you’ve just won a historic election, walked up to the stage to deliver your victory speech and the first notes of a Bollywood anthem suddenly fill the air. That’s exactly what happened when Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor, took the stage, and the crowd erupted to the tune of ‘Dhoom Machale’ from the blockbuster film ‘Dhoom’.

With odds stacked heavily against him, less than 1% at the start, Mamdani’s rise was the story of a true underdog. Over the past year, he built momentum, engaged voters across the city, and ultimately defeated high-profile opponents including Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. He captured 50.3% of the vote

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