Anupreeta Das in The New York Times:
Mira Nair is used to getting attention. She has carved a unique perch as a filmmaker by focusing her lens on the intimate social and cultural lives of Indians. But when she began shooting her latest film, based on the unconventional life of the early 20th-century Hungarian-Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil, she noticed that the nature of people’s attention had changed. More people started coming up to Ms. Nair, she said, recognizing her as the mother of Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City. Some, including young artists on her own film set, told her that his political views resonated with them.
She noted that her husband, Mahmood Mamdani, an academic, has had his share of attention, too. At a coffee shop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, recently, the owner gave him his beverage on the house when he found out that he was the mayor’s father and other customers cheered, Ms. Nair said.
“I feel like we have given him to the world,” she said.
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