Emmerdale’s Chris Bisson has teased a dark future for Jai Sharma after getting rid of his biological father Amit (Anil Goutam).
This week, after Amit attempted to befriend Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell), he was seriously caught out when Jai spotted him speaking to a loan shark in a layby.
At The Hide, Jai caught Amit in his lie and became determined to get revenge. He found Eric, explained that Amit was a ‘pathological liar’ and more than likely killed Rishi (Bhasker Patel), and he wanted to do something about it.
On Thursday (March 28), Jai played Amit at his own game and pushed him down the stairs, the same way Rishi died.
Realising that he’d broken his leg, he made matters worse and stood on it in a bid to get Amit to explain his reasoning for Rishi’s death, before taking his phone so that he couldn’t call for help.
He explained how he had begged his brother to hand over his share, which was met with him sharing some tough home truths, enough to cause him to lash out and be complicit in his death.
In Friday’s episode of the ITV soap, after keeping Amit hostage, Jai told him to leave the village forever without saying goodbye.
Explaining this major development for his character, Chris Bisson told us: ‘Jai has finally discovered the truth about Amit and I think this has brought out the dark side in him. He’s previously tried to suppress all his feelings and he listened to Laurel and Suni who said there was nothing to see hear, that Jai should move on and accept the death of his father and take Amit into his family.
‘Well that has proved to be untrue. Amit is the villain that we suspected or that Jai suspected he was. Amit has been very devious and the pain that Jai suffered over the last eight months or so since Rishi’s death has now exploded. It is like a big fireball inside him and it’s all coming out in one go.’
‘Jai is not a murderer deep down but I think he has been pushed to his limit here’, Chris said, explaining the character had reached breaking point.
‘He wants the shares to the HOP – he wants his rightful inheritance that he should have got from Rishi. The fact that Rishi is no longer with him, means that Jai feels like he needs to avenge his death in some way.’
Teasing the future for Jai, Chris explained: ‘It has changed something inside him and going forward the way he views life and people and relationships may well be affected. Certainly the way he treats business will probably be affected too.
‘I think he is going to become a bit more ruthless. He feels he has been taken for a bit of a fool and he feels like that is never going to happen again. So yes maybe Bad Jai is back! And do you know what I quite like bad Jai. He’s fun to play!
‘But he’s not all bad though, he’s a good dad and he has some redeeming qualities but we have seen him go down this path before – so who knows what lies ahead…’
