Filmmaker Mira Nair has revealed that her son, Zohran Mamdani, now the mayor of New York City, was her first choice to play the lead role in her BBC adaptation of “A Suitable Boy” — a role that ultimately went to actor Ishaan Khatter.

Legendary Indian composer AR Rahman was not always known by that name. Born Dilip Kumar in Chennai in 1967, Rahman revealed that he never liked his birth name — though, as he clarifies, “It’s no disrespect to the great actor Dilip Kumar! It just never matched my own sense of identity.”