Asha Puthli’s Love Affair With Italian TV

How the Indian-born crossover artist found disco-stardom in Italy

On November 5, 1978, in the same medieval tableau that hosted Grace Jones, Amanda Lear, Gal Costa, and Italian disco divas, Asha Puthli appeared in a somehow anachronistic space-inspired outfit comprising a golden proto-Thierry-Mugler catsuit with an incorporated cone bra, very similar to the one Madonna would wear in her Blond Ambition tour. She was se…