Filmmaker Karan Johar has been friends for decades with superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

On the occasion of Shah Rukh’s 57th birthday, Karan penned an emotional note, recalling the first time he went to meet SRK with his late father Yash Johar.

“The film was KARAN ARJUN… the set was in Film City… my father and I arrived (me playing the part of a plus size hanger on) for a professional meeting (the signing on the dotted line for the film DUPLICATE) I had many apprehensions about movie stars … many of them based on fact and some of course Stardust! So I wondered about this new breakthrough star who was apparently a lot like his first big hit ( DEEWANA for the uninformed ) … he was in costume and met me father warmly and gave him a massive jhappi,” Karan wrote.