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This May-December romance stays within springtime aesthetics
The New Indian Express
|July 12, 2025
LOVE isn't just soft hues. It isn't perfect frames or choreographed steps or a production design that screams nostalgia. Netflix's Aap Jaisa Koi, however, is convinced that's all there is to it.
OVE isn't just soft hues. It isn't perfect frames or choreographed steps or a production design that screams nostalgia. Netflix's Aap Jaisa Koi, however, is convinced that's all there is to it. The May-December romance, starring R Madhavan and Fatima Sana Shaikh and helmed by Vivek Soni, operates in a magic dreamland where a 42-year-old virgin can get an early 30s woman.
The virgin in question is Shrirenu Tripathi (Madhavan), a Sanskrit teacher in a Jamshedpur school. Shrirenu hasn't had it ever, courtesy of a curse after a failed proposal. Decades later, he lives with friend Deepak (Namit Das) and talks about his loneliness to a caged, single rat. Deepak introduces Shrirenu to an intimate-chat app called
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