A Common Man (film)

2013 Film by Chandran Rutnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Common Man (film)

A Common Man is a 2013 Sri Lankan action thriller film directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Chandran Rutnam, starring Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross.[1][2][3][4] The film is an official remake of the Indian film, A Wednesday! (2008).[5]

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A Common Man
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Directed byChandran Rutnam
Screenplay byChandran Rutnam
Based onA Wednesday!
by Neeraj Pandey
Produced byChandran Rutnam
B.S. Radhakrishnan
Manohan Nanayakkara
StarringBen Kingsley
Ben Cross
Patrick Rutnam
Wilson Gunaratne
CinematographyChandana Jayasinghe
Edited byJames Rutnam
Music byRamesh Vinayakam
Production
company
Asia Digital Entertainment Pvt Ltd.
Distributed byMyriad Pictures
Release date
  • 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21) (United States)
Running time
94 minutes
CountrySri Lanka
LanguageEnglish
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A Common Man won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor awards at the Madrid International Film Festival and bronze medal in the Feature Films category at the New York Festivals’ International Television and Film Awards, three of the 119 Gold World Medals, 145 Silver, 104 Bronze, and 327 Finalist Certificates awarded that day.[6][7]

Plot

The film starts in a room full of bomb making material and newspaper articles about LTTE bombings in Sri Lanka, the screen then cuts to a typical busy morning in Colombo. "The Man" (Ben Kingsley) plants five bombs around the city; on a public bus, in a shopping mall and the Polgoda police station, on an intercity train, and at the Katukurunda Airfield. The man then establishes his mini control station on top a skyscraper in Dehiwala and calls the police chief Morris Da Silva (Ben Cross) and informs him that if four prisoners are not released, the bombs will be detonated.[8]

Cast

Production

A Common Man was filmed in 2012 in various locations in Colombo, Sri Lanka.[citation needed] A production of Asia Digital Entertainment, the film was produced by Manohan Nanayakkara, B.S. Radha Krishnan and Rutnam.  Executive producers are Paul Mason and Jon Sheinberg. The deal with Myriad was arranged by Mason and The Movie Machine’s Sheinberg.[9]

Release

A Common Man was released worldwide on 21 May 2013 in Blu-ray by Anchor Bay Films and Myriad Pictures.

Premiere

The movie had its premiere at the Laemmle Music Hall Cinema in Beverly Hills, California on 15 March 2013.[10]

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