Aap Jaisa Koi Review: In this Netflix rom-com, 43-year-old virgin Shrirenu Tripathi finds herself enamoured with outspoken and open-minded Madhu Bose on their first meeting. However, when he learns something unconventional about her, their bond is tested.
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Aap Jaisa Koi Netflix Cast
R. Madhavan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Manish Chaudhari, Ayesha Raza Mishra, Namit Das, Karan Wahi, Saheb Chatterjee, Beena Banerjee, Shriyam Bhagnani, Sachin Chaudhary
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Aap Jaisa Koi Movie Director
Vivek Soni
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Aap Jaisa Koi 2025 Writers
Radhika Anand, Jehan Handa
The film has a runtime of 114 minutes
Aap Jaisa Koi Review
The sheer confusion of watching Indian men navigating modern dating is astounding. Aap Jaisa Koi promises to be romantic, but is somehow a preachy, convoluted mess wherein the misogynistic man ends up telling the liberal woman why she should forgive him for being a misogynistic, creepy prick and that men have it SO HARD.
One of the problems with this film is that it thinks it’s unique, but you can see bits and pieces from other films every few seconds. The entire showcase of the Bengali family is so clichéd that I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. At least everyone speaks good Bangla; otherwise, I would have rioted by now.
Jokes aside, the film starts off warm and fuzzy, with a 40-year-old virgin and seemingly liberal Shrirenu getting ridiculed and then joining a sex chat app to drown his woes in. There, unbeknownst to him, he meets the drop-dead gorgeous Madhu, a liberal Bengali woman, who takes a fancy to his innocence. It’s all fine and dandy until he invariably learns about his original meeting with his lady love and then immediately becomes a different person.
It’s at this moment that the film immediately goes off the rails. Just like the unhinged Shrirenu, who somehow becomes completely insane the moment he learns that Madhu used the same app as him, the film becomes something else entirely, painting (almost) every man as a misogynistic a**hole who only sees women as objects to control. I don’t know why we took things as far as we did because it feels like the amount of time we spent understanding Shrirenu goes down the drain at that point, and now we have to know him once again.
The second half is nothing short of silly. Words fail to describe the sheer confusion I felt as I watched Shrirenu spew complete absurdity. We somehow shift focus to his brother and sister-in-law, and then get a moral lecture that is not only unnecessary but also sticks out like a sore thumb. But you know what I hated the most about this movie? It’s the fact that, after completely insulting Madhu and her family and slut-shaming her to oblivion, Shrirenu simply says, “Oh no, Indian men are so repressed,” and things just go back to normal.
Other than the story making absolutely no sense and feeling preachy as heck, at least the performances are great. R. Madhavan and Fatima Sana Shaikh are sweet together, although they feel misplaced. Sana Shaikh is a charming Madhu, but doesn’t embody a Bengali woman from Kolkata. She can’t speak the language, and I can almost tell you with 100% guarantee that no Bengali born and brought up in Kolkata speaks Hindi at home. It just doesn’t happen.
Final Thoughts
Other than the performances, the cinematography and the great wardrobe, there’s nothing worth watching in Aap Jaisa Koi. The film is boring and goes off the rails in the name of introducing conflict. I enjoyed the first half and was too confused in the second half to truly fathom what was happening. On that note, I can’t recommend this movie to anyone in good faith. It’s just oddly devoid of logic.
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