Overview
- The clip, filmed in Brooklyn by content creator Nicolas Nuvan, shows Zohran Mamdani stepping out of a black SUV for a quick interview.
- Mamdani pulled out Rajnigandha silver pearls and said, “I’ve also started having a lot of these… It’s like a mint.”
- He offered some to Nuvan, who said it was delicious and “feels like I’m consuming perfume,” prompting Mamdani’s quip, “Perfumes you can eat.”
- The video spread quickly online with Indian and diaspora users posting amused reactions and dubbing him a “real desi” or “real Indian.”
- Mamdani, 34, recently won New York City’s mayoral race over Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, becoming the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in more than a century.