The Devil Wears Prada 2 Is Quietly Winning India’s Box Office — And Nobody Saw It Coming

Not many predicted that a sequel to a 2006 fashion satire would stride confidently into Indian theatres and hold its own for two straight weeks. But here we are — and The Devil Wears Prada 2 is doing exactly that.

The Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-led comedy drama has wrapped its second week in India with approximately Rs 8 crore, taking its 14-day running total to just under Rs 30 crore. For context, that’s a genre — the Hollywood comedy-drama — that rarely finds an audience in Indian multiplexes. Yet this one has.

The Devil Wears Prada 2: Box Office Collections

Week 2 broke down into roughly Rs 6 crore over the second weekend, followed by Rs 2 crore across the weekdays — a perfectly respectable hold for a film without major action sequences or a franchise IP powering it in India.

Part of a Bigger Hollywood Streak

What makes this even more interesting is the company it’s keeping. The Devil Wears Prada 2 is the fourth consecutive Hollywood film to turn a profit in India in quick succession, alongside Project Hail Mary, the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, and Lee Cronin’s The Mummy — all arriving within roughly a month of each other. For more on how Hollywood is bouncing back at the Indian box office, check out our entertainment coverage on TechnoSports.

This kind of run is rare. Hollywood films outside the superhero or action-blockbuster bracket have historically struggled here. The Devil Wears Prada sequel bucking that trend points to a maturing multiplex audience — one willing to show up for well-made, star-driven adult cinema, something film critics and trade analysts have long hoped to see from Indian moviegoers.

A Star-Studded Ensemble Beyond the Headlines

While Streep and Hathaway are the obvious drawcards, the film also features Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Pauline Chalamet, and B.J. Novak among others — a roster that likely gave Indian urban audiences further reason to buy tickets.

With a Rs 35 crore lifetime projection in India, it’ll comfortably close as a successful theatrical run for its genre — and a quiet, confident statement about what works when a film simply delivers on its promise.

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