Meri Pehli Noodles

There is a specific kind of loneliness that arrives with a new city. Not the loud kind. The quiet kind, that settles in at mealtimes, when you are eating alone for the first time and the food does not taste the way it did at home. Meri Pehli Noodles is an animated short film about that moment. A young man, a new city, a packet of instant noodles, and a handwritten note from his mother tucked inside. The film asks a simple question: what does it mean to feed yourself for the very first time? Not just the cooking. The growing up that comes with it. Tender, unhurried, and quietly funny in the way that real life sometimes is.