Dekhnnis are often called "The Song of The Dancing Girl" (kolvont), and here a couple of these beautiful nymphs approach the boatman to ferry them across the river for Damu's wedding. This extortionate worthy baulks on one pretext or the other, refusing their offers of jewellery, flowers, etc, until satiated by a kiss!
no progenitation here! This is the most famous Dekhnni (a semi-classical Goan dance form), composed by Carlos Eugenio Ferreira of Corjuem, Aldona in 1887 and published, with the help of his brilliant pianist brother Eduardo, in Paris in 1895, as `The Balladas de Concan'. Tipografia Rangel subsequently brought it out in Goa three decades later in 1926.
