"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.

[citation needed] A production of Asia Digital Entertainment, the film was produced by Manohan Nanayakkara, B.S.

[9] 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.