Bollywood gets a warm welcome ... Stateside.<br/> <br />Entertainers from India's Mumbai-based Hindi film industry arrived in Tampa, Florida for the International Indian Film Academy awards.<br/> <br />The event is making its first ever stop in the U.S. - with organizers hoping it will help deepen ties between the two countries.<br/> <br />In true Bollywood style, the show kicks off with a song and dance number, this one performed on a pirate ship with event hosts dressed as swashbuckling pirates.<br/> <br />As for its scale -- this show has been compared to the Super Bowl in terms of its security needs, traffic management and planning.<br/> <br />That may not be surprising, considering it's expected to be seen by 800 million viewers worldwide -- far surpassing the championship American football game's 111.5 million average viewers.<br/> <br />The film academy's decision to come to the United States, and particularly Tampa, is credited in part to the strength of the city's Indian-American community, which numbers m
