Updated On: 19 October, 2014 05:22 AM IST | | Shakti Shetty
<p>Like the recently-released film, Haider, many Hollywood movies, too, have had subtle messages weaved into their plot. Zoom right in</p>

The Lion King
When it comes to films, what you see is not what you always get. Plots conceal hidden messages; there are movies with scenes that boggle us at first but, in retrospect, it all falls into place. A case in point would be Vishal Bhardwaj's celebrated film, Haider, where the uncomfortable closeness between Shahid Kapoor's and Tabu's characters isn't what is being conveyed.
Their relationship has a strong metaphor in politics but who's going to explain that to us? Well, nobody. This art form is filled with clues and cryptic messages that one might miss — 70mm is a huge canvas, but not always enough to hold the filmmakers' imagination. hitlist tries to decode some remarkable films and things the filmmakers were trying to say all along.