mumbai in the pantheon of hindu gods lord ganesha holds a special niche and invokes love and affection from a large crosssection of indians it is said he removes delays and dangers shows the righteous path and leads to benefitsthe latest offering of times music an album extolling the qualities of the lord will enthrall devotees and music lovers alike shiv sena chief bal thackeray said on friday he was speaking at a special function held at his residence matoshree to release vighnaharta the divine destroyer of obstacles an audio cassette and cd albuma product of times music spiritual vighnaharta is created by inner voice and music design is by sharang dev the album has authentic and well researched shlokas recitation and presented in the traditional form noted singer vijay prakash a disciple of vocalist suresh wadkar has done the aalaps sargams and taraanas the album has vighna nash shlok ganesh kavach vighnanivarak sidhivinayak stotram sankat nashan strotra manorath purthi aartis and pushpanjalisduring the launch thackeray remembered his father prabodhankar thackeray for his love of classical music my father played the sitar extremely well we had a bulbultarang a sitar a sarod and the violin at our home and my brother composer shrikant thackeray quite obviously is well versed in music i am a kaansen connoisseur if not a tansen and i can detect a false note he said adding i am happy to know this album does not contain lurid music borrowed from the westsena leader uddhav thackeray and his wife rashmi a singer herself were among the select audience at the brief function