Structural functionalism explains that society is a whole with different structures contributing to the whole and that is how society works. In Lagaan, society was supposedly unified by the British through taxes and by preventing the Indians from rebelling, but when Bhuvan and his team won the match against the British, the functionalist world began to dissipate. The British-ruled India began to dissipate, while the new free India began to appear and the structures for that society began to form to create a solid society. Social class and race are both considered structures in a functionalist society; because this is how we are seen by others. We are chosen based on our social class, our race, our family status, etc. We are then pushed to see if we can work through our class and make it higher or fall to the lowest level. Functionalism shows us the crux of the matter of each society and how the structures of each society