90 ML An Authorized Drinker

Even though the comedy is very old school, it works well in the film. Ravi Kishan is very good in his role of Jon Wik and brings the house down with his comedy along with Baahubali Prabhakar and Adurs Raghu. 

The film needs serious editing of at least 15 minutes straight. There are way too many songs and repeated break up scenes which keep coming in time and again. The fights also could have been trimmed.

On the whole, 90 ML is an out and out mass drama which has decent comedy. Scenes wise, the film looks good but there is no flow in the narration in the second half. The film is clearly aimed at the single screens and Karthikeya gives them enough mass elements. 

Karthikeya is definitely the show stealer of this movie. In most of the scenes, his comedy timing worked out really well in the film. When compared to his previous films, he got an entertaining role in this movie and Karthikeya has delivered his career-best performance.

Director Sekhar Reddy Yerra has come up with an interesting plotline for the movie. The director concentrated more on generating entertainment based on the main concept of the film but only a few scenes will actually strike the chord with the audience. 

Keeping the entertainment aside, the movie doesn't have a proper solid story that will irk some sections of the audience.

Karthikeya is slowly but surely developing the right screen presence. It makes up for his lack of versatility as an actor. But, for a wannabe commercial star, the ‘presence’ does most of the heavy-duty work.

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.

Neha Solanki plays the female lead that is typically seen in Telugu cinema. She is a socially responsible girl who hates being lied to. There are also a couple of emotional scenes that are done most passively.

 

The very premise of this movie is weird, to put it mildly.  The only genre that it deserved is the Sampoornesh Babu genre.  It should have been a 'Hrudaya Kaleyam'-level comedy featuring an actor who offers himself for laughs. 

The universe of '90ML' is absurd to the core.  Like this mother of the hero who prays that her son becomes a great lover like Devadas.  Like the hero who carries with him a certificate titled 'Authorized Drinker', seeing which traffic police let him go without imposing fine.

'90ML' stretches a juvenile idea into a serious flick.  It would have been laughable had its characters been bearable. 

90ML is a film that tries to do it all. It gives you a love story filled with misunderstanding, angst and love so iconic, it requires both parties involved to cry buckets of tears.

Devadas (Kartikeya), named oh-so-aptly by his mother, has a fictional fetal/fatal (pronounced differently by different people in the film) alcohol syndrome and is given a fictional diagnosis by a doctor to partake alcohol three times a day. 

Kartikeya gets a role that requires him to dance like a dream and fight like a pro for the most part and he aces it completely. He does well even in scenes that require him to show his heartbreak and frustration, with the actor delivering well in a particular scene where his mother begs him to drink.