Aap Jaisa Koi

Name: Aap Jaisa Koi
Director: Vivek Soni
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-07-11
Rating: 2
Cast: R. Madhavan, Fatima Sana Shaikh

Directed by Vivek Soni

TezScore40/100 Unfavourable reception Unfavourable Early coverage · 1 scored of 2 Indian-media reviews How TezScore works Rotten Tomatoes 40%

115 min 11 Jul 2025

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Aap Jaisa Koi

Shrirenu “Shri” Tripathi is a 42-year-old unmarried Sanskrit professor who lives in Jamshedpur. Socially awkward and old-fashioned, he has spent years searching unsuccessfully for a suitable partner. In his youth, he confessed his feelings to a classmate named Rakhee, but when she rejected him, he insulted her, and she slapped him, predicting he would remain lonely and frustrated. Shri now lives with his best friend Deepak, while his elder brother Bhanu Tripathi and sister-in-law Kusum urge him to give up teaching and join the family’s real-estate business. Kusum, however, is unhappy in her marriage and feels trapped in domestic monotony. One day, Deepak introduces Shri to a dating and chat application called Aap Jaisa Koi, which allows users to talk anonymously with strangers. Initially hesitant, Shri eventually signs up and starts a conversation with a woman whose voice instantly captivates him. Meanwhile, in Kolkata, Madhu Bose, a 32-year-old French-language instructor from a liberal Bengali family, is shown living independently. Madhu is outspoken, modern, and unafraid to express her sexuality, making her the opposite of the reserved Shri. Unknown to him, the mysterious woman he talks to on the app is Madhu herself. Through family connections, a marriage proposal is soon arranged between Shri and Madhu. Encouraged by Kusum, Shri travels to Kolkata to meet her.

Director: Vivek Soni
Release: 11 Jul 2025
Run time: 115 min
Language: Hindi

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Unfavourable

Across 2 available source-linked Indian-media reviews for Aap Jaisa Koi, reception is unfavourable. The scored review is 40/100.

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Hindustan Times

The film begins on a breezy, beautiful note. Madhavan as the awkward, sweet professor slips into his role effortlessly, and his meet-cute with Madhu hits you right in the feels. But it soon degenerates into a mess because the makers, director Vivek Soni and writers Radhika Anand and Jehan Handa, seem easily distracted. What starts as a sweet film suddenly becomes preachy and screechy. And the conflict? The sex chatting app. It plays out so amateurishly, it isn’t convincing for a second. Sure, the makers likely intended it this way: Madhavan’s character is a manchild, uncomfortable with his to-be wife’s sexual freedom. But the film relies on convenient setups and feels rushed.

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The Indian Express

★★★★★ ★★★★★ 2.0

It’s great that Bollywood can now give us a hero who is forty-plus, and whose insecurities around women — as his best pal says, the only numbers of women in his phone are of his immediate family — feel real. But that gives way to staged confrontations-and-resolutions which instantly lend the movie a faintly mothballed air.

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Jab Tu Sajan Mohit Chauhan
Mila Tujhe Vishal Mishra, Prateeksha Srivastava
Dhuan Dhuan Sanjith Hegde
Saare Jag Mein Abhay Jodhpurkar, Aanandi Joshi, Umesh Joshi, Vijay Dhuri, Siddhant Karawde, Pragati Joshi, Arohi Mhatre Nayak, Aditi Prabhudesai
Jaadu Wali Chimki Devender Pal Singh, Vidhya Gopal, Vijay Dhuri