In Tamil Cinema, every now and then we get a film that is not the run of the mill kind. Oviya's 90 ml is a film that wants to be different but there is nothing novel in it. It has all the elements an adult film should have, with a role reversal of sorts. When we've seen films where men sit along with their friends, and drink and lament about the way their spouses treat them. We've also seen female-centric films like Magalir Mattum where a woman makes her friends realise what freedom is. Combine both these genres and that's what 90 ml falls under.

Rita (played by Oviya) shifts to an apartment along with her boyfriend and become friends with 4 other women who are neighbours. She listens to their (love) life and decides to become their Messiah. She lends a helping hand to every character and bails them out from problems, quite literally at a few places.

Had the film been a bit more organic, it would have worked out like a charm. The women are characterised well. Their arcs are given proper closure. However, they don't seem to have a dream or ambition of their own. The biggest irony, therefore is that the film preaches a lot about freedom of women.

One aspect that director Alagiya Asura must be praised is the way she's handled a lesbian relationship. While that twist pulls the carpet under your feet, it is not effective because it does nothing to push the story forward. For a major part of the film, we are not able to identify a conflict, which results in the film progressing without a direction. The lack of such low points makes the occasional high points ineffective.

In fact, it is divided into portions that define what the characters do. For example, the segment where they go in search of weed is called 'Suga-Baanam'. 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. This Oviya starrer somehow could have been a lot better if there was something more than just drinking, smoking and smoking up.