In the 20th Century, postmodernism has emerged and influenced the society, economically socially and politically;. It has also changed the parameters of understanding the literature. In the history of literature, the position of the reader has never been acknowledged correctly However, postmodernism has given the importance to the reader ignored by the triangle of text, author and reader and presented the idea of content understanding and interpretation in the shape of the reader-based criticism. Wherein, the reader instead of depending on the assigned meaning understands an artifact according to his study, priorities, and mental abilities. Apparently, the reader-based criticism has caused the damage to the authority of the author but in reality, the variety and different interpretations of an artifact is an acknowledgement of the creative highness of the writer along with the reader and content. In this article it has been tried to extract the possible meanings by applying reader-based criticism on a Mirza Ghalib's verse. By this, the implementation challenges and advantages of such type of study have been revealed widely.