Recording of the interview with Savio and Bambino on the 22nd April 2015 at AIR FM Radio

Interview with AIR Rainbow on 22nd April 2015

"The mussllam khell is a ritual, and not a folk dance, aimed at driving away evil by invoking the gods. It's a dance based on the story of the legendary prowess of the ancient Kshatriyas from whom the Christian Chardos of Chandor, as elsewhere in Goa, descend. The mussoll dance is performed near the village mandd (The mandda khuris, from where the dance begins, derives its name from the nearby ancient site of the Chandreshwar temple which now lies in ruins and where the village mandd once stood). It is an enactment of the Kshatriya story that must have been dramatically exhibited in the sabhamandap of the royal temple of Lord Chandrewshwar at Cota, whose ruins, to date, are a reminder of the splendor of the old city - a story that would have been dramatized with as many variations as the circumstances of the time permitted. Since the conversion of the Kshatriyas to Christianity, the dance has persisted as a continuing cultural expression of Chandor's Chardos,"


Vince Costa

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