In a scene from Crazy Rich Asians, Rachel (played by Constance Wu) walks into her room to find a gutted fish on her bed with a message calling her a ‘gold digger’ scrawled across the windows. The film attempted to make a point about elitism and misogyny.
The scene might have seemed unrealistic to some, but after news of Sushmita Sen and Lalit Modi dating became public, many on the Internet behaved the same way. After Modi told the world the news on social media, several people congratulated the couple but many also started making jokes about Sen ‘only dating him for his money’.