No, no, it has nothing to do with his would-be wifey Kishwer Merchant but it is his one-episodic character in the thriller Akela we are talking about. It appears as if Hiten Paintal is not satisfied with playing Anupam, a scrounger of a husband to Nivedita in Kasauti Zindagi Kay that he has gone ahead and shot for an episodic with Akela on Sony where he essays the role of a pushed-around husband Suyash who exchanges his domineering wife's soul with someone.

Hiten Paintal, who ventured in acting with a 70 mm flick, Tere Liye, has been in news recently for replacing Manish Goel in Balaji's Kasautii Zindagi Kay. But what very few know that this petite and light-eyed actor is the son of Bollywood funster Paintal. But since he shares his surname with Gufi Paintal (remember, he played Shakuni in Mahabharat?), people do tend to mistake Hiten as his son!