90 ML movie review highlights: A mishmash of random scenes

Sekhar Reddy

Yerra's

Kartikeya

and Neha Solanki starrer

90 ML

hit screens today, with music by Anup Rubens.


Devadas (Kartikeya) is a man who suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome since birth despite his mother never partaking alcohol. He's attracted to the smell and taste of alcohol since birth and is asked by the doctor to keep drinking it everyday to 'manage his syndrome'. He's an 'authorised alcohol drinker' and 90 ML per day is what keeps him going. Suvasana (Neha Solanki) is a physiotherapist who comes from a family that has RSS roots, is straight edge and empowers their women enough that they know how to fight back without waiting for someone to rescue them.

Thrown into the mix is also Devadas' best friend (Roll Rida), Seshu (Ajay), an alcohol supplier and the quirky Johnwick (Ravi Kishan) whose character is supposed to be funny and probably evil but never comes across as such. Predictably, things come to a head right before the interval but it's not hard to guess where all this is heading.

Despite the shaky characterisations, three songs that don't impress and a first half that doesn't work thanks to the numerous fight scenes, what makes 90 ML a drag to watch is the screenplay. The film just seems like a random mishmash of scenes that are all supposed to blend into each other but don't. It remains to be seen if the film fares better in the second half.