ITV Emmerdale star teases darker side to Jai Sharma as Amit’s fate revealed

Emmerdale star Chris Bisson has teased a darker side to his character Jai Sharma.

Tonight, it was revealed that Jai didn’t actually kill his real dad Amit after finding out he was a conman and had pushed his adopted father Rishi down the stairs. He instead banished him from the Dales and ordered him to hand over all his shares in the Hide to him.

Jai told Amit there was no chance for him to say goodbye to anyone and ordered him to leave the Dales and never be seen again, or he would tell the police that Amit was responsible for murdering Rishi and pushing him down the stairs.

Now Chris has warned that bad Jai is back – and why he has “some redeeming qualities”, there is much more to come from Jai.

“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,” he said.

“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. Amit is feeling the wrath of Jai’s pain. I think that for Jai it’s very simple now.. he wants rid of Amit. He wants him out of his life he doesn’t want him anywhere near him. He wants the shares to the HOP – he wants his rightful inheritance that he should have got from Rishi.”

He added: “The fact that Rishi is no longer with him, means that Jai feels like he needs to avenge his death in some way. And hurt Amit in someway. Jai is not a murderer deep down but I think he has been pushed to his limit here. But he has let Amit away with his life.”

Chris has teased it could lead to a big change for Jai going forward and teased there could be more of ‘bad Jai’.

“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,” he explained.

“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. 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…”