''A Common Man'' is a 2013 Sri Lankan

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directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker

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, starring

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and

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. The film is an official remake of the

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n film, ''

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'' (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.

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

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. "The Man" (

) 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

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and calls the police chief Morris Da Silva (

) and informs him that if four prisoners are not released, the bombs will be detonated.

Cast

as "The Man" *

as DIG Morris Da Silva * Patrick Rutnam as IP Mohideen * Fredrick-James Koch as IP Rangan Jayaweera * Wilson Gunaratne as Prakash Kumar *

Veena Jayakody Virginia Sandhya Peiris (born 27 November 1952 as වීණා ජයකොඩි) inhala, better known as Veena Jayakody, is an actress in Sri Lankan cinema, stage drama and television. Jayakody started as a child artist and has played critic ...

as Vegetable vendor * Ashan Dias *

Sando Harris Sando Harris, (18 May 1963 – 11 June 2021; si, සැන්ඩෝ හැරිස්), popularly known by his stage names Sando Harris and Sergeant Nallathambi, was an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theater, and television. With a career spa ...

as D. Gopinath *

Teddy Vidyalankara Ganwari Teddy Vidyalankara (born on December 16, 1955, as ටෙඩී විද්‍යාලංකාර inhala is a Sri Lankan actor, and stunt director. Vidyalankara contributed more than 500 films across all languages including Sinhala, ...

as Pithala Nihal * Numaya Siriwardena * Jerome de Silva * Wilmon Sirimanne *

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* Mohammed Adamally

Production

''A Common Man'' was filmed in 2012 in various locations in

, Sri Lanka.

Release

''A Common Man'' was released worldwide on 21 May 2013 in Blu-ray by

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and

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Premiere

The movie had its premiere at the Laemmle Music Hall Cinema in

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on 15 March 2013.

References

External links

the scenes of A Common Man''
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A Common Man wins bronze at New York Festival
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