Rajinikanth DID NOT injure himself while shooting for Man vs Wild with Bear Grylls, officials confirm

Tamil superstar Rajinikanth suffered no injuries during the shoot of Discovery Channel's popular program 'Man vs Wild' in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, an official clarified on Tuesday. "It is all false. As per the screenplay, there was a shot in which Rajinikanth had to fall, so while getting down from the rope, he just fell down and everybody rushed. It was all in the screenplay," T. Balachandra, the reserve's director and conservator of forests, told in a statement to IANS.

Balachandra added, Rajnikanth got up, later, completed the shoot and left for Chennai. According to the Bandipur Tiger Reserve director, the Tamil superstar was fine and did not suffer any injury.

"He was fine. That shot was from the Mysuru airport," Balachandra said, referring to a video which went viral, showing Rajinikanth walking to the airport in Mysuru.

Balachandra dismissed the news of Rajinikanth's injury as fake news. Earlier on Tuesday, Rajinikanth visited Karnataka's Bandipur Tiger Reserve to shoot an episode of 'Man vs Wild' with host Bear Grylls. "We gave permission for 6-8 hours to Discovery Channel to shoot in Bandipur Tiger Reserve," said Balachandra.

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 documentary fee, vehicle fee and others. For four days, they paid Rs 10 lakh," Balachandra said. Balachandra 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. 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.

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.

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