Vivek Soni’s ‘Aap Jaisa Koi’ (Madhavan, Fatima Sana Shaikh) starts beautifully, but slowly, the messaging gets in the way of the romance

The first hour is charming and very inventively staged. It helps that the genre is rarely seen with an older couple. But the woke messaging makes the latter parts a bit of a pain. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

In Aap Jaisa Koi, a superb R Madhavan plays Shrirenu Tripathi, or Shri, and this is one of the sweetest parts the actor has played. It taps into his every winning trait. He’s a 42-year-old Sanskrit teacher who’s single. His sister-in-law (Ayesha Raza) has been trying to set him up with women, but she, too, has relationship issues. Her husband (Manish Chaudhary) is dismissive of her attempts to spice up their life. He tells her she is watching too many OTT shows. Worse, he is dismissive of her plans to start a cloud kitchen. Even worse, he is dismissive of their daughter’s desire to join the family’s real estate business. According to him, the daughter should learn to cook for her future in-laws and husband. Shri is not a blatant MCP like his brother, but as he says later, “Par buniyaad to wahi hai na…” He still has a ton of patriarchal thoughts.

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