Ben Kingsley In A Sri Lankan Movie

This trailer is for A Common Man, a film with Ben Kingsley, set completely in Sri Lanka. It’s directed by Chandran Ratnam, the go-to locations guy for movies since Indiana Jones. In this case, however, the movie is set in Colombo and seems to tromp around Colombo quite prominently. Which is great. It looks a bit, well, loosely structured, but it’ll be quite fun to see a well-produced film shot here, and not pretending to be India.

Machan, of course, is the absolute best. Like the Sri Lankan Full Monty, by the same director.

Another movie shot in Sri Lanka that’s coming out soon is Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children. In this case they’re pretending it’s India. What’s interesting is I think they’ve used the same house for both films. I think the house in the clip directly above (a house on Flower Road, incidentally, I think) is the same one at about 0:29 in A Common Man.

It will be nice to see the city on film, both as itself and in disguise.

Posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2012 in Sri Lanka, Video.

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Gun Gun

2012-08-30 17:50:00

This movie was originally made in Hindi with Naseerudin Shah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wednesday!

Then remade in Tamil with Kamal Hasan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnaipol_Oruvan

I hope this remake (a common man) lives up to the predecessors standard. Good to see Colombo in a movie though.

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Jack Point

2012-08-30 21:25:39

Correction: Machan was directed by Uberto Pasolini

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172522/

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Hakiem Hanif

2012-08-31 21:54:50

A large portion of this movie was shot at Wesley College,Colombo. I personally know this for a fact because I study there and I was around when the shooting was going on. The principal’s bungalow was converted into the police station (I’m talking about the police station in the scene where they show sniffer dogs and the bomb squad personnel getting down from a vehicle).
The college hall was converted into the mission room or whatever you call it (the scenes of ben cross and dushyanth weeraman).
Good to know that the movie is nearing its release date. I was starting to think that it was shelved!

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tastyjujubes

2012-09-02 10:42:38

Trailer looks interesting I guess. But why would a white man be setting off random bombs in a third world country?

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