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Grade: 3.0/5.0
“Do you have a handkerchief?” Shirish Mathur (Vikas Kumar) asks his wife Geeta Mathur (Saloni Batra). The two have just run over a rickshaw puller, and Shirish doesn’t want blood on his seats. “The Knot,” which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, follows the couple after the crash which Geeta plays down as an accident and Shirish disregards, and which saddles Manoj (Nehpal Gautam), the victim’s relative, with immense pain and enormous medical bills.
Most of “The Knot” is veneer, a thin glass that, if knocked on, would shatter. It’s a good thing writer-director Ashish Pant doesn’t knock very hard. Pant softly approaches the accident and the resulting decay of the Mathurs’ relationship, which was already on the decline. This is a story of class and suffering, and not a very fascinating one at that.