Mira Nair is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who worked with a string of A-listers, including Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, Reese Witherspoon and Lupita Nyong’o.

Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist and state assemblyman, appears poised to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for New York City mayor. His leading primary opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,

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 should make THE NAMESAKE instead because “anyone can direct HARRY POTTER, but only you can make THE NAMESAKE.