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Mamdani pays tribute to mother Mira Nair before taking office
Mamdani shared glimpses of Nair going around the city, talking to people and campaigning for her son.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Sat, 27, Dec 2025
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Mira Nair campaigning for Zohran Mamdani / Zohran Mamdani via X
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has paid tribute to his star-campaigner, his mother, Mira Nair, for her role in his election win.
Mamdani described his mother as one among "the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign", and hailed her as he stands a week away from becoming the first Muslim and first Indian origin mayor of the world's most populous city.
Mira Nair is an Indian-American filmmaker born in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in 1957, renowned for her powerful storytelling that blends Indian culture with global themes.
She gained international fame with films like Salaam Bombay! (1988), which earned an Oscar nomination, and Monsoon Wedding (2001), while her later works include The Namesake (2006) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012).
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Mamdani shared glimpses of Nair going around the city, talking to people and campaigning for her son.
In the video, Nair can be seen walking up to New Yorkers and saying, " Hello. Namaskar. How are you? I have come to talk to you about Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim progressive mayor. We like this though. Younger and progressive and thinking of the working class people rather than the billionaires."
Talking to other people, Nair asks for votes and tells them that Mamdani is her son. Urging people to vote for him, she adds, "Everyone is important. People like us, they have never been asked for their opinion. They have never been asked for their voices. They have never even looked at these neighborhoods for even to talk to.
Nair describes her son as a person who listens, she says, "Politics is more about listening than it is about speaking. Zohran listens beautifully to what the world needs, what people need, what the city needs, what he has ignited in terms of a people's movement is extraordinary because we owe the people to give them the dignity they deserve and we all deserve.
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