Why can’t Hiten play a normal husband?

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.

For those uninitiated, Akela is a supernatural thriller in which the main protagonist, Ranvir can connect with life after death, that is, he can actually talk to people who are no more. Now, to throw light on the track, Hiten is Suyash who is not happy with his wife because she treats him badly. So he tries and exchanges her soul with someone and as things go wrong she tries to kill him. And to know how things get sorted out with the help of Ranvir (Sudhanshu Panddey) the serial is worth watching on Tuesday.
As an afterthought, we wonder why Hiten can't play a normal husband for a change!