New York has chosen Democratic Party’s Zohran Mamdani as its 111th mayor. Zohran is the first Muslim mayor and first person of South Asian descent to lead the city in its 400-year history. While ...

Zohran Mamdani, son of award-winning Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair, recently declared victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. He took to X, to express his joy as he wrote, "In ...

New York City has a new presumptive Democratic mayoral primary winner, which means it also has a new frontrunner in November’s election. But what do Harry Potter, Harold & Kumar, and Denzel Washington ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Her feature film directorial debut was 1988's "Salaam Bombay!," which centered on children living on the streets of India. In a ...

Packed with female book club members, a screening of Mira Nair’s The Namesake left no doubt about the film’s target audience. If anyone’s going to flock to this warm and likable tale, it’s going to be ...

Mira Nair has a cold. She’s been traveling for her new film, The Namesake, and has been recently laid low by one of those stuffy-airplane-cabin-borne viruses. But she’s hardly slowed down. To the ...

Director Mira Nair's latest film The Namesake is her most personal film to date, linking Calcutta and New York in a story about love, loss and family. The materialization of The Namesake, the book by ...

The next mayor of New York City is also the son of an acclaimed filmmaker, who has worked with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and once turned ...