I then decided to make a film on it. I then got an offer to direct Harry Potter." This was the same time Mira Nair read Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, and fell in love with it.

The Democratic pick for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, once advised his mother, director Mira Nair, not to work on the Harry Potter film series. Nair is an Indian-American filmmaker, best ...

The Bowdoin College-educated, New York State assemblymember has had an influence in his mother’s work — he is credited with convincing her to pass on the opportunity to direct “Harry Potter ...

According to Nair, Warner Bros. approached her to direct “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” after seeing her 2004 film “Vanity Fair,” starring Reese Witherspoon.