Aap Jaisa Koi Cast/Actors: R. Madhavan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Ayesha Raza, Manish Chaudhary, Namit Das & more
Aap Jaisa Koi Movie Director: Vivek Soni
Aap Jaisa Koi Movie Production House: Dharmatic Entertainment
Aap Jaisa Koi Movie Release Date: 11 July 2025
Aap Jaisa Koi Movie Available On: Netflix
Aap Jaisa Koi Movie Released/Available In Languages: Hindi
Aap Jaisa Koi Movie Runtime: 1h 54m
Aap Jaisa Koi Movie Critic Review:
He is 42. Single. Still a virgin.
He is Shrirenu Tripathi (R Madhavan), he teaches Sanskrit in Jamshedpur. Even his students tease him about virginal bachelorhood.
She is Madhu Bose (Fatima Sana Shaikh), she teaches French in Kolkata. She’s dumped Namit (Karan Wahi), her ex, after he checked out if she’s a virgin.
Shrirenu chats on Aap Jaisa Koi, an app for cosy, sexual conversations between strangers. The voice on the other end of the app tells him he’s a cross between Gulzar and George Clooney. He goes all moony-eyed. With a forgettable song in the background.
Until Srirenu meets Madhu.
The sparks are perfect. They like the same sort of tea with milk and elaichi. She even preferred Ashok Kumar to Kishore Kumar. Oldies are just fine for her.
He is old-fashioned, still believes in flowers pressed into books. And he talks to a mouse in a trap.
Director Vivek Soni and writers Radhika Anand and Jehen Handa get some things right, some quite wrong. The tone is right, light and breezy. But unnecessary background songs, one shot in black and white, another to showcase Kolkata, don’t linger easy.
Srirenu’s friend Deepak (Namit Das) is annoying. A male chauvinist with an irritating line, “Kick in your balls”.
His brother (Manish Chaudhari) is a rigid patriarch who treats his wife (Ayesha Raza) with natural disdain and asks her to train their daughter in household chores before talking about her studies.
Madhu’s Bengali family has culture dripping from all corners. Srirenu plays the sitar, she plays the piano. Her grandma’s pleased. Says, let’s celebrate Saraswati Puja together.
The lines between his and hers are stark and different.
The clash is inevitable. For him and the men around him, what’s fine for the gander (male) is not kosher for the goose (female).
With showdowns over “moral compass”, “setting limits”, “double standards” and “allowing women”, the “cute girl and nerdy boy” love story does fall into place.
Predictable. Seen before. But even if repetitive, ending on a note of gender “barabari” (equality) is always welcome.
Casting a well-known actor like R Madhavan as a virginal male who can’t get a woman to say ‘yes’ to marriage until he’s 42, is not easy to digest. Fatima Sana Sheikh who needs to be photographed carefully, is saucy as required.
Watch it or not: Since it does say the right things ultimately, it’s watchable on OTT.
Aap Jaisa Koi Review Score Rating: 2.5 out of 5 (i.e. 2.5/5)
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