This volume, an interesting historical records of stars, film-makers and technicians who Colin Pal knew intimately and had associate with them. This volume is not statistical but the memory of a man who has dedicated his whole life to the film industry with many unpublished stories.

Shooting Stars, a historical record of many facts which have vanished into oblivion in the long- gone decades of time, and we are very fortunate that such a man exists who has been a part of, and known, cinema history for over sixty years. Colin Pal Born into films, in a manner of speaking, as his father Niranjan Pal, was a celebrated personality from 1913.

The panorama in "Shooting Stars" is vast, embracing nearly a century in its canvas and a truly memorable history of Indian Cinema emerges from its vividly written pages. It presents brief but striking stories about all-time greats like Ashok Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Dr. V. Shantaram, Madhubala, thespian Dilip Kumar, evergreen Dev Anand, Bimal Roy, the irrepressible all-rounder Kishore Kumar, melodious S.D. Burman, the erudite Dr. B.R. Chopra, never-say-die Amitabh Bachchan, Hemant Kumar, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N.C. Sippy, Satyen Bose, the ever-elegant Sharmila Tagore, Shakti Samanta, Rajshri Productions, J. Om Prakash, everyone's favourite comedian Keshto Mukherjee and more.