It's no trade secret that when Oscar-nominated director Mira Nair tells stories, she doesn’t just create worlds, she questions them. Her films have long been about power, privilege, and belonging. And now, as her son Zohran Mamdani takes charge as the youngest Mayor of New York City after a landmark win, her lifelong conversation with politics and society seems to have stepped off the screen and into real life.

A filmmaker who has spent decades chronicling migration, identity, and inequality now watches her son lead one of the world’s most diverse cities. For anyone who has followed Mira Nair’s films, this feels less like a coincidence and more like continuity of a political imagination passed down, frame by frame. And that is a symbolic milestone and a poetic moment.

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