The Devil Wears Prada

Just finished watching “The Devil Wears Prada”.
To start off with its got all the ingredients which we hate.
It’s a typical girly movie with all the main characters as woman, and the men as gay.
And its about.....well - fashion. A field that people choose when they don’t have the brains to get into engineering ( as we do).
And there’s no entrance test or merit to get into a fashion school.
First 30 minutes into the movie and you know this is a boring dud- a super flop.

But wait, what is Meryl Streep doing in this movie. An Oscar nominee for a whopping 13 times( till then that is.... The count just got to 15 this year -an all time record for any male or female actor).
If you can bear the first half an hour a really touching movie awaits you.
Must see.

Meryl Streep got nominated for an Oscar( her no. 14 ). Her acting can be described as na-kam-na-zyada, just that much as much is required. Just Perfect.
Also she was supposedly playing a real-life character (that isn’t even dead), and that’s famous too, and contemporary and probably more in the media glare than even Meryl Streep. The more watched the character you play, the more compared.

I wonder why it didn’t add up to her as long list of wons rather than nominations.

Also a side–effect of watching it was that it also really changed the way I looked at the fashion industry.
I mean I must have been this real lame 65K per year coder guy writing this unwanted unasked for review, to look down upon a multibillion dollar industry which requires creativity coupled with hard work and has cut throat competition.

Watch it whenever you get time.