India, June 5 -- Zohran Mamdani, a democratic candidate for New York City's mayoral race, on Wednesday tapped into his family's movie background to attack front-runner Andrew Cuomo and make his case for the June 24 election.

Mamdani, who is the son of filmmaker Mira Nair, shared a video on X, pitting his agenda against that of Cuomo. But there is a twist - the campaign video is in Hindi.

"This election is just 20 days away, and the choice is between me and Andrew Cuomo. This is all that Andrew Cuomo has to offer," Mamdani says in Hindi before the video cuts to a scene of Amitabh Bachchan's 1975 hit Deewar.

Instead of Shashi Kapoor saying "mere pass maa hai" to the question "what do you have?", the video cuts to Zohran Mamdani, who says...