Pal was born in London to an English mother, Lily Bell, and spent his early years in Wembley, before moving to Bombay in 1929.
Pal joined Filmistan Studios in May 1943 as an apprentice after working alongside his father at Bombay Talkies.
[2] Pal spent most of his career as a publicist for mainstream Hindi films, but also wrote for a number of trade magazines.
According to Bhagwan Das Garga Pal argued that this was driven by the early screenwriters and producers in Bombay being transplants from the silent era, who were not Hindi speakers themselves, and consequently insisted on dialogue that was very straightforward contemporary language.
His re-authoring of his father's autobiography Aye Jibon: Such is life won a National Award from the Indian Government in 2001.