Bassam Tariq
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Sep 28, 2026
Nate SheltonHOST
to explore this genre, this type of storytelling, this sort of revenge style in a way, but not even fully in that same way.
Nate SheltonHOST
I think the direction from Bassam Tariq is phenomenal.
Nate SheltonHOST
We've talked about the stellar cast performance, the really wonderful moving music, and the way this film is shot, both in its action and still moments, just all really work.
Nate SheltonHOST
I think the way the movie focuses on faith and grief and, and parenthood, um, was just really, really, really, really well captured.
Petula NealGUEST
Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother.
Petula NealGUEST
directed by Bassam Tariq, starring Mahershala Ali.
Petula NealGUEST
You may know them as the pairing that almost brought us a Marvel Blade movie.
Petula NealGUEST
And only good buzz on this one in the lineups all week.
Tonya MosleyHOST
In the new action thriller Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, the two-time Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim family man who also happens to be a deadly assassin.
Tonya MosleyHOST
Bassam Tariq directed the movie, which opens in theaters this week, and our film critic Justin Chang has this review.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother opens with a murder in a public restroom in Houston.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
The victim, a man, is never identified.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
As their bloody struggle plays out, we hear a solemn voiceover explanation of the film's title.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
It's rooted in a hadith, a record of the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
A man approaches the prophet and asks, "Who deserves the best of me?" The question is posed three times, and each time the prophet responds, "Your mother." Right from the start, the Pakistani American writer director Bassam Tariq clearly delights in outrageous juxtapositions.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
Latif is not your average contract killer.
Alison WillmoreHOST
Um, you know, like, uh, Mahershala Ali was like really came very close to like, like starting production on it.
Alison WillmoreHOST
Bassam Tariq was one of the directors who was attached to it at a certain point and like left.
Richard LawsonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Alison WillmoreHOST
Uh, so yeah, they kind of were like, "Let's make this instead." Uh, and, and yeah, he used...
Christy LemireHOST
Will you see it? Let us know.
Christy LemireHOST
Mahershala Ali and Bassam Tariq couldn't make Blade, but they'd done all this work, right? They laid the groundwork for it, all that action, choreography, and training.
Christy LemireHOST
So instead, they made a really, really different movie that's great called Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother.
Christy LemireHOST
Alonzo, what's it about?
Sam SandersHOST
I want you to talk more about what you look to, what you draw from, what you think of when you're trying to create that character because I'm guessing you'd never seen that before either.
John ChoGUEST
[laughs] No. Um, first of all, it was a collaboration with Bassam Tariq, the writer-director, and Mahershala Ali, the star of the film, and, um, and I didn't know where it was [laughs] gonna go.
Sam SandersHOST
Yeah.
John ChoGUEST
Frankly, I didn't know whether I could do it.
Larry MantleHOST
Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, crime drama.
Larry MantleHOST
The action film is written and directed by Bassam Tariq.
Larry MantleHOST
The film stars Mahershala Ali and John Cho.
Larry MantleHOST
Maureen, please start us on Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother.
Maureen Lee LenkerPANELIST
Yeah, so this is basically the movie that Mahershala Ali and Bassam Tariq decided to make, uh, once it became clear that they would not be making the Blade movie for Marvel.
Maureen Lee LenkerPANELIST
Um, and so it draws on a lot of that sort of action and that style that they were going to be going for with that film.
Maureen Lee LenkerPANELIST
Mahershala Ali plays Latif, who is a devoutly Muslim hit man.
Christy LemirePANELIST
So yeah, I thought this was great.
Mahershala AliGUEST
Yeah.
Elvis MitchellHOST
And by Bassam, you mean Bassam Tariq, who wrote and directed the film.
Elvis MitchellHOST
And I think what's interesting about it, too, Mahershala, is that the first act of violence we see is the act of another elder towards you.
Elvis MitchellHOST
It's a slap you get from a character played by Giancarlo Esposito that really kind of sets things into motion about who this character is and how he's not living up to his own potential.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
Spoiler.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
But that is Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, directed by Bassam Tariq.
Nicolas RapoldHOST
This is a world premiere, as I think you mentioned before here.
Robert DanielsGUEST
The spoiler is that I think it's the best TIFF-specific world premiere that I've seen during the festival.
Robert DanielsGUEST
And it is directed by Bassam Tariq, and it stars Harsha Ali as Latif, who is a black Muslim living in Houston, Texas.
Robert DanielsGUEST
He's a single father.
Robert DanielsGUEST
His wife has recently passed away, surprisingly passed away through unforeseen circumstances.
Alison WillmoreGUEST
Next up
Elise HughHOST
is Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, directed by Bassam Tariq, starring Mahershala Ali.
Elise HughHOST
A devoutly religious hitman who uses a sword, not a gun, tries to find some work-life balance.
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I'm here for the breast milk.
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