This May-December romance stays within springtime aesthetics

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.

- KARTIK BHARDWAJ

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