| A Common Man | |
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Sir Ben Kingsley as A Common Man |
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| Directed by | Chandran Rutnam |
| Produced by | Manohan Nanayakkara Chandran Rutnam B.S. Radhakrishnan Jon Sheinberg(Executive Producer) Paul Mason(Executive Producer) |
| 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 Dushyantha Weeraman Mohammed Adamally |
| Music by | Alston Koch |
| Cinematography | Chandana Jayasinghe |
| Editing by | Chandran Rutnam |
| Studio | Taprobane Pictures |
| Distributed by | Myriad Pictures |
| Country | Sri Lanka / USA |
| Language | English |
A Common Man is an upcoming psychological thriller film starring Oscar Award winner Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross and directed by veteran film maker Chandran Rutnam.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
The story is adapted from a concept that has been done before(in the movie A Wednesday!), but Rutnam has taken that concept and turned it around into a situation of his real life encounters and played a major role of the film by screen playing, directing and editing it. Rutnam’s nightmares after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy with whom he spent the last moments before the tragedy in an election campaign in Los Angeles in 1968, well influenced the film.[11]
Kingsley’s character is a man pushed to his limits and that he eventually resorts to violent means. The film’s tagline is also as good as a synopsis – ‘Five bombs in the city. The clock is ticking.’ It’s more difficult to tell, though, who the creators' sympathies are supposed to lie with – the loose cannon or the ruthless cop? The audience will find their allegiance swinging from one to the other.[12]