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Rajinikanth Suffers Injury While Shooting For Man vs Wild in Bandipur Tiger Reserve
Rajinikanth is the second Indian personality to be featured on 'Man vs Wild' after Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on the Discovery Channel programme last year in August.
Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth visited Karnataka’s Bandipur Tiger Reserve to shoot an episode for Discovery channel’s popular programme ‘Man vs Wild‘ with host Bear Grylls, an official said on Tuesday. Reportedly the actor suffered minor injuries today when he was shooting for adventurer Bear Grylls’s survival show. Sources say Rajinikanth suffered a minor injury on ankle and bruises on his shoulder. Rajinikanth is the second Indian personality to be featured on ‘Man vs Wild’ after Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on the Discovery Channel programme last year in August.
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T. Balachandra, the reserve’s director and conservator of forests, told IANS, “We gave permission for 6-8 hours to Discovery Channel to shoot in Bandipur Tiger Reserve.” He said the one-day shoot began at 11 a.m. on Tuesday and ended by 4 p.m. “They paid as per the norms. Per day they have to pay a documentary fee, vehicle fee and others. For four days, they paid Rs 10 lakh,” Balachandra said.
Balachandra also said Rajinikanth spent five hours in the forest and will not return as his shoot was only for one day. Bandipur Tiger Reserve, an 874 sq km national park, was formed by integrating most of the forest areas of erstwhile Venugopala Wildlife Park established in 1941, and later enlarged to its current state in Chamarajanagar district, about 220 km southwest of Bengaluru.
#WATCH Actor Rajinikanth arrives at Bandipur forest in Karnataka for a shoot of an episode of ‘Man vs Wild’ with British adventurer Bear Grylls pic.twitter.com/Eh2Lwd4BAI
— ANI (@ANI) January 28, 2020
The tiger reserve lists 28 species of mammals to be present in the forest, including royal Bengal tiger, Asian elephant, common leopard, bonnet macaque, Indian pipistrelle and barking deer, among others.
Meanwhile, the state’s chief wildlife warden Sanjay Mohan said that this was not the first time a Discovery Channel documentary was shot in the reserve.
“Lot of documentaries were shot in Bandipur. I have urged Discovery Channel that they must show the efforts being made by the Karnataka forest department day and night in saving the forest wildlife,” Mohan told IANS.
The chief wildlife warden is looking forward to a good name for the tiger reserve and recognition to the forest staff with this programme.
In August 2019, Grylls had hosted Prime Minister Modi in the show, which was shot at the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand in February last year.
In ‘Man vs Wild’, former British serviceman Grylls showcases survival strategies in extremely challenging conditions in the most remote locations around the world.
(With inputs from IANS)
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