Recent Bollywood movies have had actors sporting eye-catching tattoos. Be it Alia Bhatt (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania), Sidharth Malhotra (Ek Villain) or Ranveer Singh (Ram Leela), a lot of actors — and not just the newcomers — are more than willing to flash tattoos in films.

However, this particular trend has its roots in American cinema. For many years now, Hollywood has been churning out films with actors sporting intricate, beautiful tattoos — which are temporary, of course — that speak volumes about the characters they portray on screen. hitlist points out a few of them.