India, July 11 -- Young romance feels old on screen now. Give us more stories of people finding love in their 40s and 50s. That's one front where the Netflix offering Aap Jaisa Koi scores a point. Sadly, that's the only front where it really scores any points.

Middle-aged, awkward, and still a virgin, Shrirenu (R Madhavan) is a Sanskrit professor who gets on a sex chatting app at the insistence of his friend (played by Namit Das). Soon after, a too-good-to-be-true rishta comes his way from Madhu (Fatima Sana Shaikh), a French professor. They bond, fall in love, and are about to get engaged when something changes how he looks at her. What happens next forms the rest of the story.

The film begins on a breezy, beautiful note. Madhavan as t...