The movie Gandhi had met with wildly differing reactions--stemming largely from the reactors' views of Gandhi himself. Was he primarily a religious and ethical figure, or was he a political figure in karma yogi's clothing? Mr. Rudolph takes the more positive view of the Mahatma, though Mr. Grenier also acknowledges that "for the Hindus he is a holy man." RG: "The iron law of Satyagraha, which I think we will try to translate as non-violence--civil disobedience--is the following: Its success is strictly proportional to the high moral level of the opponent.... It has to operate in a free society. It had its greatest triumph, far greater than in India, in the United States of America under the leadership of Martin Luther King."