After the debut with RX100, all the choices have been disappointing from Karthikeya. Yes, they have parts that appeal, but overall the impact is missing. Sekhar Reddy Yerra has picked a wafer-thin storyline. He makes the classic debutant mistakes with its execution, regarding the screenplay and falters big time.

The predictable story of 90 ML is filled with multiple characters to take the narrative forward. Each one of those takes up a decent chunk of runtime for their silly gags. Yes, a few of those work, but in the larger scheme of things they don’t matter.

They don’t add anything significant to the core emotion either. The love story hits an expected roadblock which we can see miles away. In fact, the makers have themselves revealed it in the trailer of the film. What is left from it is the resolution and that comes during the end? In short, you wouldn’t miss anything if you see the trailer and straight away watch the ending. The entire film is a waste of a time barring the few laughs that we mentioned previously. The commercial placements of the songs and fights are the most contrived ones witnessed in recent past movies. This Oviya starrer somehow could have been a lot better if there was something more than just drinking, smoking and smoking up.They are set forcefully to get the desired effect. But we can't really differentiate between the episodes, since they all deal a character lamenting about the lack of an active sexual life, overcoming it. For example, the segment where they go in search of weed is called 'Suga-Baanam'. In fact, it is divided into portions that define what the characters do. The lack of such low points makes the occasional high points ineffective. For a major part of the film, we are not able to identify a conflict, which results in the film progressing without a direction. While that twist pulls the carpet under your feet, it is not effective because it does nothing to push the story forward. One aspect that director Alagiya Asura must be praised is the way she's handled a lesbian relationship. The biggest irony, therefore is that the film preaches a lot about freedom of women.

However, they don't seem to have a dream or ambition of their own.

Had the film been a bit more organic, it would have worked out like a charm. She lends a helping hand to every character and bails them out from problems, quite literally at a few places. She listens to their (love) life and decides to become their Messiah. Rita (played by Oviya) shifts to an apartment along with her boyfriend and become friends with 4 other women who are neighbours. Combine both these genres and that's what 90 ml falls under. We've also seen female-centric films like Magalir Mattum where a woman makes her friends realise what freedom is. When we've seen films where men sit along with their friends, and drink and lament about the way their spouses treat them. It has all the elements an adult film should have, with a role reversal of sorts. Oviya's 90 ml is a film that wants to be different but there is nothing novel in it. In Tamil Cinema, every now and then we get a film that is not the run of the mill kind.

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