New Delhi, July 13 -- In Aap Jaisa Koi, director Vivek Soni takes on the delicate subjects of late-blooming romance, masculine vulnerability, modern love, and old-fashioned chauvinism. The film, now streaming on Netflix, stars R. Madhavan and Fatima Sana Shaikh as two professionals navigating a hesitant, imperfect courtship.

R. Madhavan plays Shrirenu "Shri" Tripathi, a 42-year-old Sanskrit professor from Jamshedpur whose gentle, brooding nature hides years of emotional repression, social awkwardness, and societal taunts-including from his brother and best friend. He finds an outlet through an app aimed at lonely hearts called 'Aap Jaisa Koi'. Fatima Sana Shaikh portrays Madhu Bose, a French teacher from Kolkata. She's confident and open...