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 serenading one Mr. Moonlight. “Mr. Moonlight After midnight I'm yours, you should know Catch me, don’t let me go,” she crooned.