Zohran Mamdani chose popular track Dhoom Machale to play after his victory speech as New York's mayor-elect and no one is more thrilled than its composer Pritam who was already rooting for the politician. The 34-year-old Indian-descent democrat, the son of filmmaker Mira Nair and Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani, defeated independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa on Tuesday night to become New York City's first South Asian, Muslim mayor.

Pritam, who got to know Mamdani's filmmaker-mother Mira Nair while she was trying to make a film called The Bengali Detective, said he woke up to the viral video. "I was very interested in knowing the results because Zohran Mamdani is the son of Mira Nair. (I was) Hoping that he wins. And as I woke up, a friend from Ameri

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