Despite being released at a time of political turmoil in Tamil Nadu after M. G. Ramachandran's death, the film became a commercial success, running in theatres for over 175 days, thereby becoming a silver jubilee film.

Legacy 

Guru Sishyan brought Gautami to instant stardom. Many of Rajinikanth's English malapropisms such as "Es-kiss me" or "Yes kiss me" instead of "Excuse me", "underwear" instead of "understand", "jaundice" instead of "justice", and "ABC" instead of "CBI" gained popularity, as did the scene where Raja and Babu conduct a fake income tax raid. S. Rajanayagam wrote that the imaging of Rajinikanth's politics can be seen in four phases, where the second covers "the period from Guru Sishyan (1988) to  (1995)". Naman Ramachandran noted that after the release of Guru Sishyan, "overtAnalytic proof

In mathematics, an analytic proof is a proof of a theorem in analysis that only makes use of methods from analysis, and which does not predominantly make use of algebraic or geometrical methods.  The term was first used by Bernard Bolzano, who first provided a non-analytic proof of his intermediate value theorem and then, several years later provided a proof of the theorem which was free from intuitions concerning lines crossing each other at a point, and so he felt happy calling it analytic (Bolzano 1817).  

Bolzano's philosophical work encouraged a more abstract reading of when a demonstration could be regarded as analytic, where a proof is analytic if it does not go beyond its subject matter (Sebastik 2007). In proof theory, an analytic proof