A Common Man (film)

A Common Man
Film poster
Directed by	Chandran Rutnam
Produced by	Manohan Nanayakkara Chandran Rutnam B.S. Radhakrishnan Paul Mason
Screenplay by	Chandran Rutnam
Starring	Ben Kingsley Ben Cross Jerome de Silva Ashan Dias Numaya Siriwardena Patrick Rutnam Frederick-James Lobato Wilson Gunaratne Wilmon Sirimanne Sando Harris Dushyanth Weeraman Mohammed Adamally
Music by	Ramesh Vinayakam
Cinematography	Chandana Jayasinghe
Edited by	James Rutnam
Production company	Asian Digital Entertainment Ltd.
Distributed by	Myriad Pictures
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States Sri Lanka
Language	English

A Common Man is a 2013 American-Sri Lankan thriller film directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Chandran Rutnam, starring Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross. The film is inspired by the Indian film, A Wednesday! (2008).

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.

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.

A Common Man was filmed in 2012 in various locations in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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

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