Grylls’ post comes seven years after the Man vs Wild episode with Prime Minister Modi, which was filmed at Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand.
British survivor Bear Grylls on Tuesday paid a special tribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a social media post, the Man vs Wild host praised the Indian leader and called him one of the “most powerful leaders in the world.”
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“I have met some of the most powerful leaders in the world. The best of them were never the loudest,” he wrote on X.
PM Modi’s ‘adventure’ with Grylls
One year before the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi teamed up with Grylls and visited Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, where they filmed a special episode of Man vs Wild.
“For years I lived among nature, in the mountains and forests. These years had a lasting impact on my life. So when I was asked about a special program focusing on life outside politics, that too in the midst of nature, I was fascinated and inclined to participate in it,” the Prime Minister said in 2020, before the release of the special episode.
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The 2019 episode showed Modi, now 75, driving to Jim Corbett National Park in northern India guided by Grylls.
While the episode was a more tame version of Man vs Wild, Modi spoke about living with love for nature and leaving it untapped for future generations as he spread the message of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (The whole world is one family).
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