For years, the National Film Awards have been the holy grail of artistic validation, often accused, rightly or wrongly, of being indifferent to Bollywood's big-budget extravaganzas. But this year, on ...

Bollywood fever gripped Cannes Thursday as art films gave way to the Indian musical “Devdas,” a classic tale of doomed love set in a make-believe world of glittering palaces. Billed as the most ...