India, Nov. 5 -- Newly elected New York mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated his victory in a way that quickly drew attention online - by walking out to the hit Bollywood track Dhoom Machale from the hit 2004 film Dhoom, featuring Hrithik Roshan, John Abraham and Aishwarya Rai. A moment for the books, captured by attendees and shared widely across social media, saw Zohran glowing as he basked in his well-deserved success.

The 34-year-old Democrat emerged victorious in a closely contested three-way race, defeating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. And none of this would have been possible without his cultural ties to South Asia's biggest export - Bollywood.

Zohran's ties t...