Madhur Jaffrey as 'rap grandma'

In the video, which debuted Monday online, the character describes herself as "85 years gold" and "the best damn Nani that you ever done seen", among other assertions too colourful for this newspaper

The halal cart was shaking. Inside the hot tin box, the 85-year-old actress and cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey, masked in giant sunglasses and a rippling white wig, was hopping up and down and making profane gestures with both hands.
 
It was Day Two of the video shoot for “Nani”, a rap song by Zohran Mamdani, a young Queens M C who calls himself Mr Cardamom. The elegantly feline Jaffrey — best known for her roles in the Merchant-Ivory film Shakespeare Wallah (1965) and, more recently, the NBC sitcom I Feel Bad — was incarnating a gangster granny who refuses